In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.