The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel I'm really right to tell that particular story.

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.

When you start on a new film, no matter how many you've done before that, I think I've done close to 80 films, but it's always kind of a fun adventure.

If you see a person who is suffering from misery and sadness, wash it away with your compassion and kindness.

God is most beautifully praised when His people hear His Word, love His Word, and obey His Word.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.

No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

I have come to the conclusion that it is attitude that determines how you handle and survive life.

There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and talk to them, they'll talk back to you.

Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.