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 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.

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

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.

When you start on a new film, no matter how many you've done before that, I think I've done close to 80 films, but it's always kind of a fun adventure.

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.