Bear McCreary Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes I find bringing in my old ideas is just detrimental.

I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

I always like to think I build in historically accurate musical in-jokes that are so precise that like maybe there's 7 or 8 people in the world watching the show that will sit up and go, "Oh my God the music being played is the right kind of music!"

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

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

While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.