You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.

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

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

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.

I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to the director and to the source material. It's really important.

The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working with a director as I would be if I were an actor. I'm wanting to provide a really good performance.