I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

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

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

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

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.

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

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