I think after everything in the whole process of filmmaking, temp scores are great if you use them for what they're good for, if you use them for that early stage of support for things.

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.

I like taking my leads from what I see rather than trying to impose. I like that way of looking at things and seeing what's on screen and seeing how I can draw music out of it almost.

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.

I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums.

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when I started making film music in the mid-80's.

I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to use the textures of those intimate groups.

For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in and instruments are recorded.

A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them.

Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.

It's decidedly bizzare, when the Worst Thing hppens and you find yourself still conscious, still breathing.

How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!

Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.

My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the emanation of the painting would penetrate into people's consciousness.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

I've been driving since I was 19 years old.

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. When you hesitate, usually you're in trouble.

Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives