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

The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

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.

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

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've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.