Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

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

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

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

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.