If you have a ton of counterpoints, complex harmony, all these tricky things going on, it makes things less accessible to people.

That's such a big part of film scoring that people don't realize. There's a portion of film scoring that's writing the music, but a lot of it is how do you get along with the guy you're working with, how do you interpret what he wants? It's so subjective, you know? Your version of sad is probably different than my version of sad. It's my job to figure out what your vision of sad looks like.

When you're watching a show like this or watching a movie, sometimes when you have big music in a scene, it tends to push the viewer out of the scene and makes someone feel like an audience member rather than like they're in the scene.

If you have a ton of counterpoints, complex harmony, all these tricky things going on, it makes things less accessible to people.

We're always trying to really ground it, and I use this term a thousand times, it's a score I want people to feel and not necessarily hear.