Top 33 Mccreary Quotes
#1. 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
#2. It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every single word. So I do have to do a little Wikipedia/YouTube research to figure out what I'm talking about.
Kelly McCreary
#4. If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word, pass it on to somebody that very day.
E. Stanley Jones
#5. I came to L.A. for pilot season, and it was so brutal. So brutal. But still, I just want to be making forward progress. There's lots of ideas about being a superstar. But my idea of being a superstar is just going forward and having new challenges and trying out new things.
Kelly McCreary
#6. 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
#7. I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently.
Kelly McCreary
#8. When you change showrunners, it's like getting divorced and getting remarried.
Bear McCreary
#9. The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.
Bear McCreary
#10. I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.
Kelly McCreary
#11. There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
Nancy Gibbs
#12. Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people.
Kelly McCreary
#13. The more normal it gets for people to see people of a gender or skin tone they wouldn't expect in jobs that they wouldn't expect, or speaking a way they wouldn't expect them to, the more it cultivates a sense that we share more than separates us.
Kelly McCreary
#15. 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
#16. Sometimes I find bringing in my old ideas is just detrimental.
Bear McCreary
#17. My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread to make Yourself loved and to be available for a visit by anyone who desires You!
Alphonsus Liguori
#18. 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
#19. 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
#21. I think the American people pretty well understand that radical Islam has an agenda that includes us.
Lindsey Graham
#22. Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.
Bear McCreary
#23. 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
#24. Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.
Fran Lebowitz
#25. 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
#27. if no changes were necessary for you to achieve financial independence, you'd already be there.
John Cummuta
#28. At first, being a storyteller, it was fun to dress up and fun to sing songs and pretend to be very dramatic - all of that stuff was just fun early on.
Kelly McCreary
#29. I didn't see a lot of women who looked like me on TV when I was growing up.
Kelly McCreary
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.
Thomas Keating
#33. I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.
Bear McCreary
