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I think of myself as a film composer.

Film music has a great history of composers and performers.

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.

Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five or more movies in a year.

There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

Seeing the work of directors like Romeo Castellucci, Ivo van Hove, Thomas Ostermeier, and Simon McBurney and Theatre de Complicite, was, and continues to be, hugely important to me. To my mind, these are artists who are forging new languages of performance and storytelling, and their constant reinvention is very inspiring.

I respect artists so much, and I absolutely love music as the ultimate art.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.