I have tremendous respect for film composers.

The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.