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.

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.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

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.

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

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.