You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
They're all my children... every score I've done.
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 is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.
Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.
I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.
If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
Whatever you say to yourself about it being just another movie, and you're going to do the job you always do, it ends up being a 'Bond' movie and a sense of what it is to put music to James Bond and to honor the music that exists.
