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.

It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.

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

I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

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

Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.