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“When I'm thinking about themes for Elrond, Elendil, Isildur, these are characters that I think all fans have an idea where they're going to go. So I wanted to write a theme for them, and Sauron as well.”
“I thrive on multitasking.”
“I grew up watching sci-fi and horror and dramas and playing video games. These are all things I enjoy doing.”
“Diversity in sound, just like diversity in storytelling, is a great thing.”
“As I got older, I really got into hard sci-fi, novels, and movies - things like 'Aliens' and 'Blade Runner' and all that kind of stuff.”
“I'm a very visual person.”
“I think 'Masters of the Universe' might be the first fictional universe that I dove into.”
“I was thrilled to have had the opportunity to work Mark Hamill in creating the 'Child's Play Theme.' He dove into the experience head first and was a joy to work with.”
“I don't ever really think about the genre I'm writing in, I just look at the project that I'm going to be contributing to and I'm almost immediately inspired by the story and the characters and the visuals and I translate that into sound.”
“I love doing different things, I'm just wired that way.”
“Sometimes the entire tone of an episode can be reshaped in directing or editing or acting.”
“I feel like deep down inside, I think I am one of the dwarves.”
“I like to bring something unique to every project I take on, something that can immediately hook the audience and tell them what show or film they're watching, or game they're playing.”
“Elmer had a sailboat. Every summer he would take it up to Alaska and come back down, and he kept his boat in Bellingham Harbor. Joe Coons ran the local boat club. That's how I met Elmer Bernstein. And I ended up working for Elmer for seven to 10 years.”
“When I got the call from Capcom to work on the music for 'Dark Void,' I jumped at the chance to do it, considering my love for Capcom games.”
“Battlestar Galactica' was my first job as a composer. To say that it changed my life is the understatement of the century.”
“In 'Battlestar Galactica,' at the beginning of my career, I explored middle Eastern and Japanese percussion that got pulled into the score.”
“To me, the bar for television music is forever set by Shirley Walker's score for 'Batman: The Animated Series.'”
“My brother grew up listening to rock n' roll and then he started to discover film music. I was the exact opposite. I grew up listening to nothing but film music.”
“I did a lot of science fiction, and I've done a number of post-apocalyptic science fiction environments.”