I’m looking for a feel and I have to find what that feel is before I can move on from there. I’m not necessarily catching stuff in such a simple way – I don’t need...

It’s convenient in a way, because you don’t have to answer many questions: People say, ‘Man, how are you feeling?’ And I say, ‘How do I look?’ And they go, ‘Oh, okay.’ I’ve got the...

So I’ve learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I’ve done and I turn them down, they’re going to do it anyhow.

I can’t get that live and I don’t have the time to take the tape, after I’ve finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion...

You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it’s going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.

The whole process we’re talking about is quite easy, … I just hope people realize this was done using real sets and real lights.

I’m trying to interpret the film through the director’s head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

At the end of the day, Tim said, ‘Look, can you just do this vocal?’ I did not write it for myself, but did in the end, do it because Tim wanted me to, …...

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It’s still their ball game. It’s their show. I think any successful composer learns...