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I consider myself a composer.

I really think of myself just as a filmmaker.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

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

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

I don't really call myself a composer.

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.

I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.