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.

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

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

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