When I'm working with pictures, with images and storytelling, it's really about the sentiment and the emotional trajectory of the characters. That's really where the music lives, I think. That's what I'm focused on; that's what I respond to most… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I don't have synesthesia, but I think when music is really intense, it's almost like it's more than just hearing. If you're at a gig, and there's just something amazing going on, it's not really just hearing: it's more of… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
People have written about 'Sleep' as if it were some kind of record attempt, but I could just put repeat marks at the end,… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
When you're working in cinema, you often have a very, very compressed schedule - very few weeks to just kind of go through that… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of sketching on… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I lived in Scotland a long time, and I became aware of Mogwai really from the beginning. They seemed to be fusing hard music… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
When you make a piece, one of the interesting things is hearing what other people think about it. — Max Richter Copy Share Image
It feels like when novelists say they find their characters are doing things they never thought they'd do, the material comes alive, and that's… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
'Sleep' is a project I've been thinking about for many years. It just seems like society has been moving more and more in a… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, there were really only two possible futures in the foreground, which were Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'. — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I was living in a suburban town north of London, dutifully practicing my Mozart sonatas. And the milkman who delivered the milk in the… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
There is also a particular area of sleep called slow-wave sleep. I immediately liked this idea. It turns out this part of sleep is… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
'Black Mirror' obviously has its own universe, with a very strong fingerprint and strong themes, and I was intrigued on reading. It's such a… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
