It’s so hard to do anything that doesn’t owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you’re going to end up doing something that he’s probably already done before. It always seem like we’re falling behind whatever he came up with. ‘Singin’ in the Rain” in Clockwork Orange – that was the first time I became so aware of music in movies. So no matter how hard you try to do something new, you’re always following behind.
