The thing that makes me want to write a piece of music is having something to talk about, you know? Something I want to get across. Because I'm a composer, music is my first language, and that's what I reach… — 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
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
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
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
When you make a piece, one of the interesting things is hearing what other people think about it. — Max Richter Copy Share
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
'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
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
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
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
'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
When we go to sleep ordinarily, we're doing something really private. It's kind of an intimate, private connection with our sort of physical humanity. — Max Richter Copy Share
Sleeping and being asleep is one of my favorite activities. Really, what I wanted to do is provide a landscape or a musical place… — Max Richter Copy Share
I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me,… — Max Richter Copy Share
