Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

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.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

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.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.