I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries.

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.

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

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

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

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

I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries.