There are many things that have stayed consistent. But the biggest change, of course, is technology, the way it's used, the way films are shot, the format that they're shot in, and the way films, of course, are edited. It's very different than it was in the past.

I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries.

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

I like to do a lot of research on all of the films I work on. So, I like to read a lot. That's always an interesting part of it with me.

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

Different directors have different techniques in the use of films. Cronenberg is very different in the way he works with film, and how he takes the audience into his films is different than how Peter Jackson would do that or Jon Stewart. So, if you go between those artists, you shift gears and you kind of fall into the working method of that film.