Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

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.

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

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

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

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.

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.