If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

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

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

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

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.