Charles Bernstein – A little fear is normal for composers

I would say there’s a pattern to almost every film I’ve ever done, and I’ve done a lot of them. First of all, none of them has ever been a piece of cake. They all have what I would call a healing crisis. There is always a low point somewhere. The very beginning is good, and then somewhere early on I confront a total crisis in which I think I’m not capable of doing the job. There’s a total crisis where I feel completely lost and helpless, and then I climb out of that and it always has turned out well.