Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short..

I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There's this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love it when the music, wh….

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have th….

The main thing the composer needs to do is it needs to remember that the director is there to cheer you on. The director wants you to succeed because….

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to liste….

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 ….

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….

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….

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..

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….

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

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 ….

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..

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 ….

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

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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