MRH: I’m actually surprised that there’s such a substantial amount of music on the Drive Angry soundtrack album. Is that a reflection of the 50-60 mins. worth of music you composed?

MW: Total score I wrote over 100 mins. Some cues got taken out, but I think the full score for the film was probably between 85-90 mins. Actually, I had to take out a lot to get the running time down to where it didn’t bore people to death.

[Patrick] likes to do a lot of music, and he likes to keep a tone established from the very beginning of the movie. He feels that music is really important to maintaining the tone in the film, even if it’s really quiet and at points imperceptible, he always wants to keep something in there that will keep you transported into the world of that movie, whatever it happens to be.

In some cases it might be some strange atmosphere or just little particular sounds you might hear in the background, and then in other moments the music just completely takes over the movie, but either way he likes to have a lot of music. In this case there wasn’t a lot of budget for songs, so I had to cover a lot of spaces that in a bigger budget [they would use songs]. I would love to have heard a bunch more songs in the movie but the budget just wasn’t there for it.

MRH: What is your next project?

MW: Right now I just started a television show called Breaking In that premieres April 6. I’ve three films coming later this year, none of which I can talk about yet because I’m still waiting for the deals to get done with the casting, and as soon as the actors are locked in I can talk about it, but right now I have to keep my mouth shut!

MRH: It’s a busy year.

MW: Yeah. It’s like I tell people, I’m in a happy paradox because I know the work is there and it’s coming; I just can’t say anything about it yet.