Quotes by Hans Zimmer

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

“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 dont want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.”

“If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.”

“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.”

“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 ow...”

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

“When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will begin to sound like Kung Fu Panda.”

“There was a dodgy digital period when things didn't sound great, but now we are figuring that out. The basics haven't changed, which is talented human beings playing together in a room.”

“Nobody beat me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing, and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right, I better do it well.”

“I wrote the notes, but the notes are only a tiny part of the journey for me. The team that surrounds me, speaks the same language.”