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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

Personally, I'm not interested in getting more money for what I do; I'm just interested in more money being put into the production.

I like to play around with mixing high-end with more affordable pieces.

When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage.

If I had all the money in the world, I don't think I'd want to be in the studio for longer.

I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well. I'd love to be able to do a mixture.