Paul Thomas Anderson - Is He a Collaborator?

Paul Thomas Anderson's music has been very different sounding. Does he come to you with ideas or are you left to react to the footage yourself? There will sometimes be some reference recordings or films he likes but he's very enthusiastic about music and uses it so prominently in his films. You're quite good at changing your style though and not getting too locked into one thing. Are you quite mindful of that? Yes. I think real film composers have it properly difficult. They have to work very fast. Or a given temporary music that they have to copy, slavishly. And now you realise why all of the real theatre musicians that sit in the pit all day and do the same concert