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

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.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

I just love the sheer mess of New York.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

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.