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.

I have kind of an intuitive feeling as a composer as to what would be appropriate for those groups and how to feature certain paths in a certain way, whether there was dialogue in a scene, or whether there was no dialogue and music was telling the story at that point.

The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working with a director as I would be if I were an actor. I'm wanting to provide a really good performance.

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.

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