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

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.

I just love the sheer mess of New York.

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 had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

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