The Best of Hans Zimmer

Some of the most creative people in the world generate ideas by allowing their brains to make connections between two totally different inputs

Hans Zimmer encourages the composer to think of music as a conversation — question followed by answer, sentence followed by a sentence, phrase followed by a pause. When adopting this thinking, music is seen as story-telling and this is what film music is all about.

"There's a certain transcendence that happens when you're into the music, when you're just playing from your soul." -Zimmer

“If I play you a piece of music, that’s when you can truly look inside me.” -Zimmer

“I’ve spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn’t reach the heart.” -Zimmer

As long as you have a vision, you have rules, or guideposts. He says that not having rules is like mashing a bunch of different-colored Play-Doh together