How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

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

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

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.

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.