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I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

I just love the sheer mess of New York.

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.