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

I just love the sheer mess of New York.

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

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 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.

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

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.