Entertainment Weekly’s coverage of the holiday season’s best films continues with an in-depth interview between There Will Be Blood creators Paul Thomas Anderson, the director, and Jonny Greenwood, whose score for the film will be released on Nonesuch December 18.

In a Journal post earlier this week, the pair discussed the horror-film inspirations for Blood and its score. Now, in the complete EW interview, Jonny reveals that Punch-Drunk Love is his favorite Anderson film (“… such great music. I’m a sucker for pump organ.”), and Paul explains in further detail just how much impact the score's composer has on his films:

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer. Jonny was really one of the first people to see the film. And when he came back with a bunch of music, it actually helped show me what his impression of the film was. Which was terrific, because I had no impression. I had no idea what we were doing. And really, you have so many people that you collaborate with along this whole road of making a film, and you get to the end, and you're kind of face to face with two people really at the end: the editor and the composer … There's just the three of you standing, holding all of these people's work together, trying to make sense out of it …

To read the complete EW interview with Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonny Greenwood, visit ew.com.