I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.
If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
I think being a little nuts is helpful.
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.
John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.