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.

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.

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.

I am a limitless being of oneness. I am the physical embodiment of joy. Anything is possible in my life. My true source is joy.

If the sky was the limit, none of our heroes would have reached the moon.

I was not a believer in instalove. So said the rational part of my brain.

Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

The challenge is for the graphic designer to turn data into information and information into messages of meaning.

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.