When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

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I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

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The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

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I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

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How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

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Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

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Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.

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Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

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Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

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I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

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