Max Richter Quotes

I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.

So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.

I love writing music for film and TV, but putting it into a video game is twice as fun because it needs to be repeatable and joyous.

On 'Lost,' I write a score and orchestrate it on days one and two; I record it on day three. In animation and film and videogames, you have a little more time to work things through.

When I write music for a film, I'm not writing a solo album, and I'm not writing a personal piece. I'm part of a team of artists. So I think like a filmmaker more than a composer.

I very much enjoy working with talented filmmakers who have a good sense for music, who have a strong feel for music and for what music can do in a film.

The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.

I've not used a score in any of my films so far.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

My profession is called record production.

I don't know - music in film, for me, is not another part of a soundtrack; it is something that also helps to approach a character, to foresee the type of image - you see what I mean - it's like a part of the process.

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.'

I've been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording.

I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.

I'm very influenced by the work of George Martin and the string arrangements that he did for the Beatles.

I'm not a script composer. I'm a film composer and my brain is excited by images and moving elements.

Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.

I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlimited resources at his beck and call. When music you have written works well in a film, nothing can beat it.

I would like to do more film scoring, period. Whether it is a big film, a small film, or just anything. I feel like I have a lot to learn, and what better way to do it than on the job?

'Raaga' is one of those movies which is very special for any music director to compose music for.

You've all seen movies where the music isn't working with the story. And it's either because... the story isn't working itself. Or the composer kinda just wants to write whatever they want to write, not paying attention to the thing.