Christopher Young Quotes

And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.

Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can't save a bad film, and a bad score - so it's said - can't sink a good one.

I'm into horror pictures because I love the fear of being alone in the dark, and I'd recommend that to any composer who wants to work in this genre.

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

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 a tradition has been thoroughly established. So it's repeated use over the years is like, 'Oh God, another film with strings, another spooky movie with strings.'

I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.

With most other genres, you need movie stars. With horror, you just need a story.

I would love to make a horror picture!

Some of my favorite scores include Bernard Herrmann's Hitchcock scores.

One of the wonderful things about 'Power' and why fans often say it makes their heart race is it's set up like a horror film because the audience is, like, four or five steps ahead of the characters.

My music is rather abstract and maybe even strange-sounding for some people, so maybe that's why it's been used in so many horror movies and thrillers.

What I love about film music is the variety. On one movie, you might be asked to do a completely electronic score, and then another might ask you to do orchestral only.

Whatever you say to yourself about it being just another movie, and you're going to do the job you always do, it ends up being a 'Bond' movie and a sense of what it is to put music to James Bond and to honor the music that exists.

In the old days, all the movie songs were recorded right there on set.

When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.

Godzilla' took two months because it required a two-hour-plus score. 'Imitation Game' was three weeks.

I like the original 'Halloween.'

The idea of doing film and music together is an absolute dream.

Northeastern folk music influenced me from a very young age. Sachin Dev Burman is one of the inspirational musicians in Indian film music. The way he fused folk music with his signature style is amazing. So, I am aware of the beauty of northeast folk music.

For me in a horror film, just looking down a long corridor and seeing somebody standing there, the simplest thing in the world, has a really seismic impact to me.

Music, for me, in a film is never... I don't want to use music as a slave of the image. I want music to be art, or a body in itself to give something to the film.

My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.