A lot of these gadgets and pieces of technology we use become almost like friends to us, and we expect our friends to have voices.

Certain Academy Awards like Sound and Visual Effects and Editing are sometimes referred to as technical awards. They're not technical awards. They're given for artistic decisions. And sometimes we make them better than others, and I guess we made a couple of good ones on this one.

A lot of these gadgets and pieces of technology we use become almost like friends to us, and we expect our friends to have voices.

Mixing is figuring out what is essential to the moment and subordinating everything else