If I were doing five cop shows, I'd probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations. Bear McCreary More Quotes by Bear McCreary More Quotes From Bear McCreary 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. Bear McCreary violin tunes lonely Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense. Bear McCreary difficult horror bigs 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!" Bear McCreary musical people thinking I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around. Bear McCreary good-enough musician couple 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. Bear McCreary abnormal way thinking 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. Bear McCreary television way years Sometimes I find bringing in my old ideas is just detrimental. Bear McCreary old-ideas sometimes ideas 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. Bear McCreary approach shows writing When you change showrunners, it's like getting divorced and getting remarried. Bear McCreary divorced The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship. Bear McCreary important-relationships directors television 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. Bear McCreary perspective littles television 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. Bear McCreary hours film television 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. Bear McCreary jerry genre
