Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with that initial splash of horror films in the 1930s and '40s. And horror films kept New… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and the moon. Your skin crawls up an octave. This is what I tap into when… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
I don't think when I started off that I was expecting to become so specialized, but what happened is that when my career started,… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
In horror movies, you can write music that if it was performed on the concert stage would have the audience running out of the… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of 20th century orchestral music, the experimental avant-garde composers of the '50s, '60s, and '70s. In horror movies you can write… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a world where… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
People who work in horror know they are contributing to a genre that has always been loved and will always be loved - privately.… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
I've always had a fascination for everything surrounding things that are unexplainable. Not surprising that my first movie was a horror film, even though,… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
'Psycho' is probably the best known example of a horror film whose exclusive sound was strings, and since then, it's been hard to avoid… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
Usually when I am approached to do a score for a horror movie, it's to attempt a repeat performance of what I did way… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
