To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-a….

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film..

Different directors have different techniques in the use of films. Cronenberg is very different in the way he works with film, and how he takes the a….

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument..

I like to do a lot of research on all of the films I work on. So, I like to read a lot. That's always an interesting part of it with me..

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra..

I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to write to the novel or book if there is one. I t….

I have kind of an intuitive feeling as a composer as to what would be appropriate for those groups and how to feature certain paths in a certain way,….

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language..

The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working with ….

I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to the director and to the source materia….

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling..

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an ….

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it..

The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the w….

I grew up in repertory theaters, so it was comedy one night, drama the next. I'm used to going from one to the other. And I worked for years in telev….

I never shied away from a challenge and I love doing big, epic films. They're interesting to me just on a pure music level, just in terms of the amou….

Saturday Night Live was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and ….

You don't always want to be using the music in a way to express ideas inherent that are on the screen. You might want to work more around the fringes….

I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical mu….

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings..