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

I never shied away from a challenge and I love doing big, epic films. They're interesting to me just on a pure music level, just in terms of the amount of music I could create for a symphony orchestra and chorus.

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

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.

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

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

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