I think being a little nuts is helpful.

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

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

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.