My only advice would be to be aware that there’s two principles that will make you succeed as a film composer. One is persistence and the other one is luck. Luck will choose its own moment in time. You can’t count on it. You can hope for it. But it will happen when it decides to happen. Persistence is the only thing that is under your control, that you can apply in whichever measure you see justified. And this is really all there is to it.

Talent, I think, you have to kind of take for granted. You have to trust in yourself and say, “I believe that I have enough talent to do this.” And if you can say that, then it really comes down to persistence, or stubbornness, or however you call it. And just stay with it. Stay at it. Keep working at it.

I have not done a single job yet where I wasn’t dissatisfied with something that I was doing. So I had to learn something new or I had to explore something new, and this is part of that process. Understand the process is never finished. If it were, life would be boring and the job would be boring. So if you’re aware of all of these facts, then you can just keep working. And in keep working, you’ll get better and better.

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