Diversity in sound, just like diversity in storytelling, is a great thing. — Bear McCreary Diversity Copy Share Image
Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
There are certain things I've always wanted to hear vido game scores do. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I think David S. Goyer is definitely a visionary writer and filmmaker. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
A theme can be a little melody, it can be a couple of notes. It can underscore and add subtext. — Bear McCreary Couple Copy Share Image
I always love to use exciting colors from cultural music from around the world in my scores. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I did a lot of science fiction, and I've done a number of post-apocalyptic science fiction environments. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I approach everything from the same perspective which is character and story, which then influence the musical style. — Bear McCreary Approach Copy Share Image
I have been very fortunate in that I'm not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here… — Bear McCreary Approach Copy Share Image
Yes, Gimli was a very comedic character, but at the end of the day we understood him almost to be like an… — Bear McCreary Character Copy Share Image
Umm, it can be a challenge when you're jumping from genre to genre. However, I find that genre hopping is actually very… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
To me, the bar for television music is forever set by Shirley Walker's score for 'Batman: The Animated Series.' — Bear McCreary Bar Copy Share Image
I was growing up at a time when you just couldn't go to the movies without hearing immortal film music. And I… — Bear McCreary Film music Copy Share Image
One of the great things about working on 'Battlestar' is, while we don't use orchestra all the time, when we do, I… — Bear McCreary Fight Copy Share Image
At first glance, I was nervous that 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' would be difficult to approach... It ties together a cinematic universe… — Bear McCreary Cinematic Copy Share Image
With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience… — Bear McCreary Experience Copy Share Image
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… — Bear McCreary Genre Copy Share Image
I always like to think I build in historically accurate musical in-jokes that are so precise that like maybe there's 7 or… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I read 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' when I was in middle school. But it was the films which… — Bear McCreary Alive Copy Share Image
The 'Black Sails' theme is purposefully nasty, sloppy and chaotic. It feels improvised, even though it's not; the idea was to make… — Bear McCreary Day Copy Share Image
It's hard to take a series of intervals that we all recognize, and arrange them in a way that is not so… — Bear McCreary Audience Copy Share Image
The theme is the most essential component of a new series and I spend a lot of time developing it. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Sci-fi, fantasy, horror, period pieces, these are all things that inspire me and get me out of bed. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
The harfoots are nomadic. And if a society is on the move, its instruments have to be portable. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Close Encounters' really showed the world what can be accomplished when a filmmaker and composer are cooperating closely. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I… — Bear McCreary Cinematic Copy Share Image
I didn't become a TV and film composer because I wanted to play sold-out rock concerts, but that's what's ended up happening.… — Bear McCreary Film Copy Share Image
I mean, 'Battlestar' was - it doesn't sound it now, but then, that was not how you scored sci-fi space operas on… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
If I were doing five cop shows, I'd probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find… — Bear McCreary Cop Copy Share Image
I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around. — Bear McCreary Couple Copy Share Image
The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship. — Bear McCreary Cinema Copy Share Image
I mean what I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80s music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50s and… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
When I was 16 years old, I had a chance meeting in Bellingham, Washington, of all places on planet Earth, with the… — Bear McCreary Chance Copy Share Image
I find reading books about music is sometimes tricky, because you can't hear it. But when you read a book about filmmaking,… — Bear McCreary Book Copy Share Image
The first season of 'Human Target' was to me the pinnacle of my career as a composer. It pushed me to become… — Bear McCreary Career Copy Share Image
I mean, I think everybody has fond memories of 'Masters of the Universe.' It was just one of the things in the… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Remember, a TV pilot is like an experiment. You try it out, and if it works, then they make it a series.… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
