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.

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

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

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

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

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

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.