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.

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

When you start on a new film, no matter how many you've done before that, I think I've done close to 80 films, but it's always kind of a fun adventure.

I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel I'm really right to tell that particular story.

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen.

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.