Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Bear McCreary

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American composer Bear McCreary.

Last updated on November 7, 2024.

Bear McCreary is an American musician and composer of film, television, and video game scores based in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his work on the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as Outlander and The Walking Dead. He also scored the 2018 PlayStation 4 video game God of War and will do so again for its 2022 sequel, Ragnarök, also the 2021 video game Call of Duty: Vanguard, as well as the 2019 feature film, Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

American - Composer | Born: February 17, 1979

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If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.

Bear McCreary

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.

Bear McCreary

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.

Bear McCreary

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!"

Bear McCreary

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

Bear McCreary

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.

Bear McCreary

While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.

Bear McCreary

I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on.

Bear McCreary

If I were doing five cop shows, I'd probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations.

Bear McCreary

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

Bear McCreary

When you change showrunners, it's like getting divorced and getting remarried.

Bear McCreary

I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.

Bear McCreary

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

Bear McCreary

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

Bear McCreary

Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Bear McCreary

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