I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

There are days when you're in a good groove and the actor really understands the part and comes as prepared every day as you are and is so inside it. And then there's the day where, for whatever reason, it's just a harder slog. And I feel like those are the days where all the preparation and everything becomes more necessary because you have to find a third route there.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.