1. “Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.”
2. “Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.”
3. “Death is away around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.”
4. “If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.”
5. “There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.”
6. “I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn’t want that if I were in the audience.”
7. “Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.”
8. “I prefer a life in which we don’t take ourselves too seriously.”
9. “When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.”
10. “I like business and personal life to be distinct.”
11. “I don’t generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there’s something awfully wrong with it.”
12. “Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.”
13. “I don’t personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.”
14. “A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don’t think I have ever been carefree and can’t see the pleasure of it.”
15. “All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.”
