When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.