- Terminator [The Terminator (1984)] was very difficult because I was using many different synths and sequencers and because I didn't have MIDI available on many of them I had to sync them by hand. This is why the main theme is in a very odd time signature. The looping of the Prophet 10 was just a little short of a complete measure.
- My music was really designed very, very much to go to the image. I was never thinking about people listening to it without the image.
- I really think that our job is to use whatever exists in the world, or even create an instrument for a score because there's nothing in the universe that sounds like what your imagination is wanting for that film. Electronics and computers help that, but sometimes, literally, you have to take a piano string and string it across some kind of open box and bow it with a cello bow or something. You have to come up with a new sound, and that's always fun.
- I've always been surprised that people enjoy listening to my soundtracks, because I felt like I was part of a team, the filmmaking team. I always loved movies and I just happened to have the skill to create sounds and music and that's just what got me on the team, but it was always about the movie.
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