I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.
I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.
A good score should have a point of view all of its own. It should transcend all that has gone before, stand on its own two feet and still serve the movie. A great soundtrack is all about communicating with the audience, but we all try to bring something extra to the movie that is not entirely evident on screen.
As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.
You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.
Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
It will all end very badly, Gus
I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.
I was once really close to sitting down and having a conversation with a shadowy young woman who is reputed have become a millionaire by investing in Beanie Babies. She was someone that a couple people claimed to know, she seemed to exist, but she remained shadowy.