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

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

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.

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.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

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