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.

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

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.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.