88 Quotes by Hans Zimmer

The first thing I think about is music, and the last thing I think about is music. I’m like some Monk. I don’t see a lot of daylight. I hang out with musicians, I hang out with directors and I just try to spend as much of my life as possible playing music.

I’ve spent my life trying to make things simpler...

I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There’s this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love it when the music, when the cultures collide and something sort of new comes out of it.

The main thing the composer needs to do is it needs to remember that the director is there to cheer you on. The director wants you to succeed because if you succeed, you’ll be helping the film. And they are truly your conscience. And they’re truly your guide.

As opposed to being on the Internet, there’s something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.

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 challenge in scoring a sequel is, how do you not get bored? The only way around that one is to go, “Okay, let’s throw everything out that we had before and let’s just see it as an autonomous movie, and let’s just start again.”

I’m homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.

America is a magical place, and I think my job, or the job of a lot of us European filmmakers is to just hold up America to Americans and present it to you in a new way. All I wanted to do is in a funny way say, “Look at your country. It’s magnificent.”