Trust me, if you're working on a $70 million movie and you're the last guy, you feel all that weight on your shoulders.

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

Trust me, if you're working on a $70 million movie and you're the last guy, you feel all that weight on your shoulders.

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."

Hollywood allows you to go and express yourself.

I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell you what orchestra it was, I can usually tell you what hall it was in. I can tell you, obviously who the conductor was, and who the composer was.

A violin is nothing more than a piece of wood and a dead cat. But it's a piece of technology. So when computers came along, in the '70s, I suddenly thought, hang on a second, this is interesting. These things can become an instrument. So I just became very interested in them, and started, playing with electronics.