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I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

I loved the process of writing.

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

I'm finding writing very fascinating.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.

When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.

I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.