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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.

It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.

When I was a young artist, and I would go look at other artists' career retrospectives, and I was often disappointed with the lack of story line... What was missing to me was the story of where the artist came from and how they got to where they were.

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.

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

Everyone relates differently to contemporary stuff. They rely on you to do the research for a period film.

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.