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

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

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

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

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

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.