When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.

I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.