There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
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.
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.
When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.