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 like challenges and I definitely would like to be more of a chameleon.

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

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 way that I make films is that I sit down and I think, "How much money could I get with less consequences?" And that's how I start. I'd rather have less money and total autonomy than more money and start having to answer to things, because then I'm not being true and the money men are not being true.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.