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.

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.

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

What must not be read must not be written.

I'm good at reading people.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

I made Lost World in September of '91, and by the end of that year, I was living in Toronto.

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

Later, when they were almost asleep he had called out to her. 'Finke?' 'Yeah?' 'We'll make a great team. You plant. I build.

A dad stands tallest when he kneels to pray with his children.

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.