Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer
Hans Florian Zimmeris a German composer and record producer. Since the 1980s, he has composed music for over 150 films. His works include The Lion King, for which he won Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1994, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Thin Red Line, Gladiator, The Last Samurai, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, and Interstellar...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth12 September 1957
CityFrankfurt, Germany
CountryGermany
The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a hobby. Its why I get up in the morning.
There's a power that movies and music has, that can move you and motivate you to look at your neighbor in a slightly more respectful way, and look at cultures in a more inclusive way.
The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.
I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.
If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.
Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.
Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.
Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.
If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.
Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.
You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.
Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?