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

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

I grew up in repertory theaters, so it was comedy one night, drama the next. I'm used to going from one to the other. And I worked for years in television as well. So, I like the interrelationship of it and having a good relationship with a group of artists creating something really where the sum is greater than all of our individual contributions, our parts.

I have kind of an intuitive feeling as a composer as to what would be appropriate for those groups and how to feature certain paths in a certain way, whether there was dialogue in a scene, or whether there was no dialogue and music was telling the story at that point.

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

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.

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