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

Even more than in the concert hall, in church there are things you can and cannot do, just out of respect. You would never have the sound of someone being nailed to a cross, or the sound of a child being born, because everybody knows the story. We know that we're meant to feel a complicated raft of things.

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

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

Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.

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.

Riding a horse is a relationship with a foreign creature, and with musicians it's a similar thing: "OK, I'm going to put something on the page that will spook you into rushing." Little games you can play.