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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that way. If the director and the composer can have this common goal and this excitement about making something great, then you're going to do something good.