Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.

I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available.

As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but bring your own thing to it." In a lot of ways they feel like opposites, but in a sense, my job is to cajole or encourage decisions that I approve of.