I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

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

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.

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

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.