I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life.

I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place.