John Leeson Quotes

Ironically I think this is what sparked my interest in and passion for the NOAH, which is capable of creating all these old weird and wonderful sounds.

My best monster bass sounds have come from FM8. People think they all come from Massive, but most of the ones that kids online are trying to recreate in Massive are actually from FM8. I also really like Sylenth1, my Tone2 Gladiator and some other granular soft synths as well.

I like to direct for the big screen.

In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things that aren't words: grunts, groans, gasps.

Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

Filmmaking is a real craft.

I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible.

It's great if you can afford to carry a string section on the road with you, but most people are used to the idea of just a keyboard player creating those string sounds.

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd.

'Terminator 2' is so good. I love it.

There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.

I wanted to take the power of thought and the word, along with the power of speaking and heart, and see if we could wire what was coming out of us as humans with electric instruments.

Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.

I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for 'Modern Romance.' I love that movie.

I'm going to make a movie about 'Hey Girl.'

I love 'The Matrix' a lot - I am lucky and blessed to be a part of it, and I believe in it.

I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'

The album that really got me interested in how to create weird sounds, and pretty much changed my life, was 'OK Computer.' Funnily enough, my parents bought it for me because it was recommended to them, and the first 2 times I heard it, I absolutely hated it.

I build a robot version of Jenna Marbles' dog, Kermit. It turned out a little bit worse than I had anticipated.