The lack of education means, the lack of having something I can pull out of a drawer, means I have to find something in any movie I work on that is intensely personal.

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.

The challenge in scoring a sequel is, how do you not get bored? The only way around that one is to go, "Okay, let's throw everything out that we had before and let's just see it as an autonomous movie, and let's just start again."

As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.

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

I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.