I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

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.

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.

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

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

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.