Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

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.

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.