Christopher Young Quotes
'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.
Quotes to Explore
-
Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
-
The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
-
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
-
I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
-
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
-
Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
-
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
-
I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
-
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
-
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
-
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
-
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
-
You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
-
Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
-
I love Channing Tatum!
-
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
-
It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
-
Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.
-
The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access.
-
When you are cast for a role, it's because of everything that makes you who you are in that moment in time. No one else has that. That's a unique, powerful thing to hold.
-
I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
-
I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.
-
There's no smoke and mirrors here.
-
'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.
