I like to do a lot of research on all of the films I work on. So, I like to read a lot. That's always an interesting part of it with me.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel I'm really right to tell that particular story.

The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film.

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.

Ah, young love. I will miss seeing how this unfolds." -DezPierre

How does a person perform nobly in Hell?" I asked her."You plant flowers, " she hissed. "You feed the birds, while they're burning...

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life.

I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.

The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor.

Being willing makes you able.