I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

The first thing I think about is music, and the last thing I think about is music. I'm like some Monk. I don't see a lot of daylight. I hang out with musicians, I hang out with directors and I just try to spend as much of my life as possible playing music.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

I try to communicate with the musicians the way I communicate with the filmmakers. I'm not going to say to them, can we be a little bit more presto here. Hang on, this should be a bit more exciting, or I try to explain the scene to them, or I try to explain the context the notes are supposed to live in.

Hollywood allows you to go and express yourself.