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.

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

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.

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.

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.