I think every film is made better by having smart music supervision that's really in tune with the spirit of the visual content.
There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar; I would love to get nominated again.
I don't think I could make a good film, but I could definitely score a good film.
It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.
When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.
I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.
It's typical for video customers to often use licensed music - whether a soundtrack, background music, or sound effects - to complement their video projects.
When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.
I think TV composers don't get enough credit. I really think it is one of the hardest jobs.
I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.
My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.
I've been making movies a long time. I'm a professional at it. I'm not a professional at making soundtracks - that's not my job. My job is to put the right songs in the movie so the movie works the best it possibly can.
Music is half the film.
I think 'Easy Rider' might have been the first time that someone made a film using found music instead of an orchestral score. No one had really used found music in a movie before, except to play on radios or when someone was singing in a scene.
I'd love to do film and soundtracks, and you couldn't do much better than James Bond.
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.
One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.
I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films.
Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
My brother started in the music business, and I was an actor - we were both in the entertainment industry, but doing separate things. Then he went over to New Line and started their soundtrack department, that's how he got his foot in the door.
I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.
I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.
I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.
I guess my job has always been to build the music, direct the videos, to do all the things that usually fall behind the scenes.
I've featured in some soundtracks in the past, and I would love to do more. I love great soundtracks to movies. Quentin Tarantino always picks amazing soundtracks, so I would like to do something for him or write a song for him.
