For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening’s experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so...

What happened with Practical Magic was that I wrote the best score I think I’ve ever written for a film that engaged me not at all.

I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine.

I’m like a decathlete who does all of the events he’s used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn’t...

I’m not saying that there weren’t other inherent problems with the score that couldn’t have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin...

It was a very curious situation when there were two soundtracks for the film being composed simultaneously – my score, and the songs.

The film scores, the operas, the string quartets, and the instrumentals. I feel free basically to slap down any ideas that interest me.

There’s always a question of duration, there’s a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want – you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good...