I like business and personal life to be distinct.

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.

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.

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

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