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

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

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.

When you start on a new film, no matter how many you've done before that, I think I've done close to 80 films, but it's always kind of a fun adventure.

Keep moving in the direction of your dreams. No matter how slows it may seems, stay focus, you will get to the finish line.

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

Making a home is hard work, and for some reason it's underappreciated. It's way to make sense of things.

The result showed the wisdom of your orders.

What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.

We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.

I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.

murder is not polite.

It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us.