I think after everything in the whole process of filmmaking, temp scores are great if you use them for what they're good for, if you use them for tha….

I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums..

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be..

The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning ….

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that..

I studied music all the way through college, but as soon as I graduated from university, I got straight into London and got straight into film music.….

I've been able to have broad kind of education and all sorts of different music and a lot of kind of films and also different styles and genres. And ….

With the great people that you work with, it's that they're never giving up and they're never thinking something's finished until they've really, rea….

For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally ….

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor..

No one's being precious about their music. They want the film to be great. And that was the huge lesson for me along the way to be a filmmaker. And y….

I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to us….

A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them..

For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in ….

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house a….

It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when I started mak….

I'm not very good at sounding like other people. When you're going through your 20's and trying to get a break and that kind of thing, and you're try….

I find that I love so much stuff and respect so many people who work in this industry and music in general. I've kind of learned that I've got to jus….

I like taking my leads from what I see rather than trying to impose. I like that way of looking at things and seeing what's on screen and seeing how ….