Saturday Night Live was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.