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

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

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

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

The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film.

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.

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.