I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to write to the novel or book if there is one. I try to create music that's honest and true to my heart for the story.

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

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

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

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 have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel I'm really right to tell that particular story.

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.