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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

for though life can have its unspeakable tragedies, there is simply too much joy out there for those who'd seek it.

Conservatism -- hard work -- saving one's money -- looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Eveless paradise, that.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.

I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.