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I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

The music for 'The Departed' could have been played by an orchestra, but you make a decision about orchestration based on the context of the film. You want the music to broaden the scope of a film, not just repeat what you're seeing.

Film music has a great history of composers and performers.

Music in this film is a very important part.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.