When I was 9, I saw 'Star Wars,' and it set me on a path to where I am today.
Nothing can grab you by the throat - or heart or soul - like an orchestra. It's undeniably the most engaging and exciting way to bring a score to life.
If you listen to a score from beginning to end, you should envision the entire film in your head.
I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it for whatever reason. I'm just so influenced by the music that I listened to growing up, a lot of it out of the '60s, so it has a natural tendency to feel like it's from another era.
I think the Wachowskis are two of my favorite people on the planet; they're the best.
My entire life was making movies.
Sometimes people do things because they are sad or because they are upset or were hurt by other people.
One of the things I was never thrilled about with 'Medal of Honor' was that it was non-stop music.
When you write for an orchestra, the sky's the limit.
I think that to capture food in music, you really are capturing an emotional response to food.
Most television, the music is very much the same from show to show.
I work on the types of movies that I would have loved watching as a kid.
As an audience member, everyone I talk to is like, 'I'm so excited to see 'Super 8.' I'm so excited to see it.' And part of that is because of his drive to make sure that it stays hidden until the last minute.
I always thought of 'Lost' as a psychotic opera. Because there were so many characters, it was important for me to track them with themes.
I used to do puppet shows as a kid - me and my brother would do them - and then any poor soul who came into the house had to sit and watch our puppet shows.
My dad had these great Benny Goodman albums that I was obsessed with, and Louis Prima's another guy I loved, and Peter Niro the jazz pianist. I loved international music: Irish music, Mexican music. I love the different colours that they all have.
I've always, always, always listened to music since I was, like, 7 years old and made up stories in my head based on what I was hearing.
I was fortunate enough in my public school that they had a full music program, and no one escaped it. It was treated as a subject that was as important as everything else, and I believe it is.
I lived in New York City for six years, and I was always amazed at how diverse everything was.
I always loved movies like 'King Kong' and 'Planet of the Apes,' monster movies, Ray Harryhausen films, all of that stuff. I always loved the music in them, too.
