John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

I'd love to do film and soundtracks, and you couldn't do much better than James Bond.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

I like soundtracks and I like film.