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.

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.

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.

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

There are many fun things to do in life, but few that are more rewarding than committing to living the life of your dreams.

To discover the original plan of God is to manifest the work of creation

All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul.

In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. SOMEONE has to be a ballerina. Why not us?

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

Michael Owen will get double figures this season - or at least 10, possibly more.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.