ScoreNotes: As a director, can you tell us just how important it is to have an effective score for your films?

Uwe Boll: Music is between 10 and 40% of the impression a movie makes.

ScoreNotes:  During post production, how involved are you with the composer and the scoring process?

Uwe Boll: The composer comes up with proposals ...gets a little infiltrated by our temp music ...and so it goes back and forth until we are happy.

ScoreNotes: When it comes to selecting the right composer for a given project, what is the process that you and your team go through to make the selection?

Uwe Boll: I work with Jessica De Rooij, who I think is the most talented young composer in L.A.

ScoreNotes: In a broad sense, who are some of the composers in the business today that you feel have a special quality about their work?

Uwe Boll: John Williams ...he really writes everything on his own and is great for big scores. Alan Silvestri or Thomas Newman has that special touch. 

ScoreNotes: Do you feel that film scores might sometimes be unjustly overlooked by audiences?

Uwe Boll: Absolutely ...play KING KONG without the score.....

ScoreNotes: Who are some of the directors or filmmakers that you admire?

Uwe Boll: Orson Welles, John Ford, William Wyler, Martin Scorsese.

ScoreNotes: Moving on to your film projects, can you tell us about the "Darfur" production you're currently involved in?

Uwe Boll: We are done shooting and it will be a very harsh movie about the ongoing genocide in Sudan...

ScoreNotes: What would you say are the different challenges involved in directing versus producing?

Uwe Boll: Producing is the full work..from start (financing) till finishing (selling). Directing is more intense but only for a shorter time period. I'm both ...

ScoreNotes: How much attention do you pay to critic reviews, and do you think that film critics might sometimes approach movies in too serious a manner?

Uwe Boll: There are good critics and they always inform their readers about a project while other critics are only egoists and wannabe filmmakers.

ScoreNotes:  As we wrap up here, can you tell us about some of your upcoming films that we can keep an eye out for?

Uwe Boll: "Stoic" is based on a real story where three prisoners tortured a guy till he hung himself and "Rampage" is my version of the financial disaster we are in. Both films are done. Stoic looks like a January 2010 release and Rampage April 2010  ...but we do festivals before.

ScoreNotes: Lastly, and going full circle -- what would you say are some of your all-time favorite soundtracks?

Uwe Boll: Ennio Morricone's "One Upon a Time in the West" and "Once Upon a Time in America ." Also, "Dances With Wolves" and "Citizen Kane."