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.

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!"

Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.

Sometimes I find bringing in my old ideas is just detrimental.

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.

I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.