I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.