Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get..

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work..

Film and television as a medium has only very recently begun to be taught at the great drama schools in the UK. When I was at drama school in the UK,….

After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores..

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films..

I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes but I tend to watch just foreign films..

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer..

I'm a believer in film school..

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film..

My contribution to film has always been negligible..

I feel like a lot of the films I do, part of the reason I like doing them is I'm not 100 percent sure what it's going to be. It's exciting. I read an….

Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV..

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan..

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting..

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something ab….

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained..

My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive..

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with..

I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time..

It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if yo….

We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he would write feature fil….