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

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.

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.

He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender

Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.

You can't manage creativity. You need to manage for creativity. You need to create the space for it to emerge.

Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

I love fried okra. The fact that it's okra makes me feel like it's good for you - I forget the fact that it's fried.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.

Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.