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We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

- Max Richter
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When you're working in cinema, you often have a very, very compressed schedule - very few weeks to just kind of go through that whole process of reflection and refining - and it has to be done.

I can't usually sleep if I'm listening to music. It seems to fire up my mind, and I keep engaging with it to see what it's doing.

It's true that many of the best-known composers were German or Austrian, but we should remember how good the music tradition is in Britain, too, because it has an informality and a fluidity that should really be celebrated.

It's a liminal thing, humming, And I'm always interested in liminal things.

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 for when I want to convey something.

In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and the great composers don't seem alien.

I was living in a suburban town north of London, dutifully practicing my Mozart sonatas. And the milkman who delivered the milk in the mornings was kind of milkman by day, composer-artist by night.

When you make a piece, one of the interesting things is hearing what other people think about it.

'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 direction where we needed it. Our psychological space is being increasingly populated by data. And we expend an enormous amount of energy curating data.

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We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.