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I consider myself a composer.

I'm a composer, man.

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.