Esa-Pekka Salonen

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.