I always liked the stress, the real high-stakes, get-the-orders-out line-cook job, as well as the ordering of the produce and everything - it's really similar to making music for a show like 'Hannibal.' It's like cooking; it's just like owning a restaurant.

Brian Reitzell

I don't think nightmares are necessarily bad for you.

Brian Reitzell

There's nothing worse than being stuck with a bad song.

Brian Reitzell

I know this as a musician: When you nail something, and you get so much attention for it, you want to strip that away and prove, mostly for yourself, that you don't need that.

Brian Reitzell

The movie I worked on that had the most problems and interference came from the smallest indie movie I've ever done. I couldn't believe what the director had to go through; he was destroyed.

Brian Reitzell

I love collaborating because I come from the world of being in bands.

Brian Reitzell

Every continent on Earth has a form of bullroarer - it's the oldest instrument known to man.

Brian Reitzell

I'm not a sports fan, but I remember watching highlights with post-rock guitar instrumental music over these slow-motion shots of football players. It's triumphant, and it's emotional, and that's what sports are for.

Brian Reitzell

Indie movies can be a lot more stressful than studio pictures. The stakes are just as high whether you're talking $3 million or $40 million.

Brian Reitzell

With 'Hannibal,' it's almost like the music is part of the furniture, so as a character goes from one room to another room, or we go from one place to another or whatever, the music is just going with it the whole time the same way that the audience is sort of tracking it and following along.

Brian Reitzell

The thing about me is that I'm a total music freak.

Brian Reitzell

I think for a horror experience to be really scary, something has to be a bit of a shock and a surprise. It's like something you've never experienced before.

Brian Reitzell

The older I get, the more I think birds are the best musicians on the planet.

Brian Reitzell

My favourite scores, they have very little music. I don't ever want to notice the music coming in. I just want it to suddenly be there and feel something.

Brian Reitzell

Music as a business is a dirty thing.

Brian Reitzell

With 'Hannibal,' it's like reactive scoring so I don't get ahead. I don't read a script; I don't want to know what's going to happen until its happening in front of me and I'm able to have an instrument in my hands that I'm playing to make some kind of a map, some sort of tonal map, that I can then build on.

Brian Reitzell

When my parents got divorced, I wanted to spend my time laying in the garage listening to the washer and dryer. Loud, immersive, changing. It was music to me.

Brian Reitzell

If I put the sound of the ocean on, that's going to do something to you. And I know what that is because it does it to me, too.

Brian Reitzell

'Hannibal' is not reality; the whole show is not reality. It's heightened reality: they want music the entire time.

Brian Reitzell

With 'Hannibal,' I just really want people to feel something.

Brian Reitzell

One of my first favourite records of all time, as a kid, was 'Tommy' by the Who. Now that wasn't really a soundtrack, but it was.

Brian Reitzell