For me, growing-up music was always about telling stories.
When I was 10, I had a group of friends that I used to love to make movies with, and we made them growing up; we did it all through high school.
I loved 'Planet of the Apes,' and I loved 'Star Wars,' and I loved 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' and to me, the goal always was to work on something as cool as that.
I grew up listening to 'Planet of the Apes' and other scores, and it was fun for me because you weren't just listening to those scores, but you were also questioning what you were listening to. What are those sounds?
I don't like working all hours of the night and having an unreliable working pattern.
I like to write a piece of music that reflects how I felt about a film as opposed to, here's this action scene; here's this set piece.
When you're starting out in this business, it's very easy to want to say yes to everything that's offered to you.
There's so much fun you can have with your instruments that no one ever taught you.
I try to keep a regular work schedule.
When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an animator.
Of everything I've done in my career, or whatever you want to call it, 'Lost' is the purest version of me musically.
I think Mozart, with all his impatience in writing, would have loved it. It would have allowed him to write twice as much. He would have loved a Mac. If he'd had a laptop, he would have been unstoppable.
If you look at my credits, most of them are the same directors over and over.
I watched 'Land of the Lost' as a kid, you know, incessantly. I loved it. Me and my brother watched it every Saturday.
There are a lot of guys who do this job, and they have tons of assistants. They all kind of write together, and for me, it's basically me here in this room, and that's it.
In 'Ratatouille,' there are two different themes that express the two sides of Remy's personality: the creative side: the chef, and the 'thief' side: his nature as a mouse.
Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?
I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life.
When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows on television are probably synthesized, or mostly synthesized, and that's a shame.
I was never one of those people that would just take jobs that were thrown at me.
