Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.

I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!

There's that weird and cool line that music can cross where it still gives you the goosebumps and you think it's cool but on the other hand it's sort of like also letting you off the hook a little bit with the ironic aspects of the thing. I think that's the inexplicable, the smell of a movie. That's the taste of the movie.

Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.

I love comic books - maybe to a fault sometimes.

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

[Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it real, then the approach is kind of the same, for me anyways.