Max Richter Quotes

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

Hopefully my fan base doesn't lock me into 'Twilight,' you lose yourself. You should do things for you, and I have been really lucky to have things that really rock me and really move me falling into my lap.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

I think when it came to music, it did feel quite natural because it was something that I was so passionate about.

Filmmaking, it has been my first love.

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

I'm working harder than I have ever worked in my entire life, but what the hell, my life is my job now, and my job is my life and that's the way it should be.

There's always time to do things that you're passionate about. ... If my name helps get something out there that I believe in then I am going to produce it. ... Design is really my true love.

Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.

What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you drop. I don't care how many lines I have on my face - I'll keep doing it!

Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.

Talented people have to do what they do. Someone can criticize but you do what you do.

The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.

Soccer is what I grew up doing - it's my passion, and I'm way more comfortable on the field in my soccer cleats.

When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.

The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.