I'm not writing music that's composed for the penguins, ... I'm writing music for the people watching the penguins and thinking about how they feel. And I'm thinking about how I might feel in that situation.

It was a great way to allow the script and the music to coexist,

I got connected to this film by luck, ... I was telling my agent that I was dying to do something with a big melody.

What I did was to be a little more inside the box,