Brian Reitzell

“The thing about me is that I'm a total music freak.”

“The library companies have made it so that music is so cheap to license. They do sound-alikes of every band, and it makes it harder for the actual bands to get any decent paychecks for licensing.”

“I've put a lot of records out and a lot of soundtracks, and 'Hannibal' is kind of a special one.”

“'Loveless' was a really big record for me. It was what was keeping me alive when I was still touring with Redd Kross.”

“One of my first favourite records of all time, as a kid, was 'Tommy' by the Who. Now that wasn't really a soundtrack, but it was.”

“I know this as a musician: When you nail something, and you get so much attention for it, you want to strip that away and prove, mostly for yourself, that you don't need that.”

“If I put the sound of the ocean on, that's going to do something to you. And I know what that is because it does it to me, too.”

“I only want to make enough money to make more music.”

“I really don't like the way most movies and TV shows are supervised - I hate when there's someone singing over dialogue, songs just thrown in there.”

“I approach horror music differently than anything else. The very first time I watch an episode, I want to be playing an instrument to it so I can get that shock into the show.”

“Indie movies can be a lot more stressful than studio pictures. The stakes are just as high whether you're talking $3 million or $40 million.”

“'Lost in Translation' was a year of my life, if not more, and then 'Marie Antoinette' was about three years of my life.”

“The older I get, the more I think birds are the best musicians on the planet.”

“I think for a horror experience to be really scary, something has to be a bit of a shock and a surprise. It's like something you've never experienced before.”

“The movie I worked on that had the most problems and interference came from the smallest indie movie I've ever done. I couldn't believe what the director had to go through; he was destroyed.”

“I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.”

“I'm always full of ideas. I just haven't stopped doing what I did as a teenager. Now I just happen to get paid for it!”

“'Hannibal' is not reality; the whole show is not reality. It's heightened reality: they want music the entire time.”

“With 'Hannibal,' it's like reactive scoring so I don't get ahead. I don't read a script; I don't want to know what's going to happen until its happening in front of me and I'm able to have an instrument in my hands that I'm playing to make some kind of a map, some sort of tonal map, that I can then build on.”

“I always liked the stress, the real high-stakes, get-the-orders-out line-cook job, as well as the ordering of the produce and everything - it's really similar to making music for a show like 'Hannibal.' It's like cooking; it's just like owning a restaurant.”