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Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

It's interesting about classical music that the more you hear something, the more you get to know a piece, the better and better it gets, period, which is just an interesting thing on it.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.

I was always really into the music rather than the scene.

All of the silent films had live music accompaniment, so it's actually a very rich period in music.

The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.