Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.
Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.
If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
I like business and personal life to be distinct.
When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.
I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.
John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
I just love the sheer mess of New York.
Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.
I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.
I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.
