I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

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I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

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Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

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Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

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John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

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I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

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I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

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In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

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John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

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I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

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