If you're the sort of person that likes a job where once you know what you're doing you can keep doing what you're doing, don't ever become a film co….

To spend any time with someone who is among the top five film composers of the last 50 years is pure gold dust. I mean, not necessarily stylistically….

Some people feel like you need to have a very specialized understanding of music to have the authority to talk about it. They are such good directors….

It's a myth that you need to understand all the ins and outs of music. The ideal scenario is you have a conceptual, directorial conversation about wh….

In the sometimes ridiculous action scenarios you're laughing out loud, and so the more committed and in fact the more highbrow the music is, the funn….

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something..

Some directors are comfortable with music. Some feel comfortable discussing and talking and operating in a musical language. Others don't engage so m….