Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

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.

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

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

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.