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

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

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

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.

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.