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

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

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.

In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier the restaurant, the less pointing there is.

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

Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.

With chamber music you can get people who work on the music for months, rehearsing it every day for a couple of hours, and if they get it in a different way than you do, which is entirely possible, it's not as a result of anything other than their good musicianship.