I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not ….

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me..

Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting ba….

Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be mor….

It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an em….

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….

I really look forward to revisiting this body of work which has been such a huge part of my life and bringing it to the concert stage. And the idea o….

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony..

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..

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..

I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, n….

Sometimes on a film you just become taken with the fact that, all right this is as rough as it gets, but I'm going to support my general and I'm goin….

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the mov….

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're g….

If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music..

You'll never get me into a tux. Not until I'm dead and I have no choice because that's what the undertaker put me in..

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get ….

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film..

The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting..

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Hallo….

It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the t….