Quotes from Hans Zimmer

You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing.

Why get up in the morning unless you're going to have an adventure?

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.

If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only way to move things forward.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don't want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

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.

Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

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

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.

If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only thing to move things forward.

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

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

When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.

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.

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.

If somebody tells you there's a rule, break it.