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

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.

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

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.

You don't always want to be using the music in a way to express ideas inherent that are on the screen. You might want to work more around the fringes of the story, and work more with the subtext, and add more depth to the story through the use of music.

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