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

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.

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.

I would like to think she turns around and goes home and does one thing differently that day because of what she has imagined, and again the day after that, and the day after that.

The iron may not be hot early if you want to wait for it to get heated

My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.

He that would travel much, should eat little.

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

I didnt really watch Dallas growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.

Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.

Who said nights were for sleep?

Courage is required to make an initial thrust towards ones coveted goal, But even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve.