America is a magical place, and I think my job, or the job of a lot of us European filmmakers is to just hold up America to Americans and present it ….

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something..

Having the great opportunity on a daily basis to sit in front of a blank page is terrifying, and at the same time really exciting. I can't actually g….

I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell you what orchestra it was, I can usually tell you wh….

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure..

I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people..

The honest truth is that it was just traumatizing with the piano, with the authority of the piano teacher, getting rapped across the knuckles, and so….

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose..

What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware….

Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there….

Hollywood allows you to go and express yourself..

I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth of tunes….

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then ….

The lack of education means, the lack of having something I can pull out of a drawer, means I have to find something in any movie I work on that is i….

I grew up in a house full of music, and a house that didn't have a television. We had a piano, but no television. And really, I very quickly realized….

I try to communicate with the musicians the way I communicate with the filmmakers. I'm not going to say to them, can we be a little bit more presto h….

When I was 13, when I was 14, when I was in England, yeah all I wanted to do was go and see The Who, go and see The Stones..

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting..

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie..

I don't drive, so one of my assistants drives me to my writing room, and I have a calendar on the wall telling me how much time I have left, and how ….

You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times..