And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.

- Jim Coleman

When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way.

- Jim Coleman

I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.

- Jim Coleman

I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut.

- Jim Coleman

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

- Jim Coleman

So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world.

- Jim Coleman

In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.

- Jim Coleman

If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it.

- Jim Coleman

I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives.

- Jim Coleman

I'm just like you, only I'm different because I'm me.

- Jim Coleman

I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.

- Jim Coleman

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

- Jim Coleman

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

- Jim Coleman

For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.

- Jim Coleman

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.

- Jim Coleman

But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that.

- Jim Coleman

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

- Jim Coleman

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.

- Jim Coleman

Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.

- Jim Coleman

With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the mood.

- Jim Coleman