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….

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….

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 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….

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

Nothing bad ever happens, why should I care?.

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

It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do..

Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying ….

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 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 ….

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

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….

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..

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….

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….

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….

I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me. I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget; we….

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….

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..

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….