“If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it’s their show, and I’m here to write their music for them.”

Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal – music that’s perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.

The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there’s really no more important relationship.

I’m not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

What I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith’s 80’s music and Bernard Herrmann’s genre music from the 50’s and 60’s.

I have been very fortunate in that I’m not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a year-round process in the way that it’s made.

While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.

If I were doing five cop shows, I’d probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations.

Sometimes I find bringing in my old ideas is just detrimental.

When you change showrunners, it’s like getting divorced and getting remarried.

I always like to think I build in historically accurate musical in-jokes that are so precise that like maybe there’s 7 or 8 people in the world watching the show that will sit up and go, “Oh my God the music being played is the right kind of music!”

I’ve always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I don’t think anybody’s necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you’ve said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.

The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.

It is really important for us that people understand what the strategy is and that the real approach is to make everything social, not to build a vertical approach.