There's a lot of violence in Beethoven not explicitly suggested by the notes or in his markings, necessarily. There's just a way that it looks on the page that encourages it to be played in a certain fashion.

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

The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.

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 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.

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