Hans Zimmer
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Demographics
Gender Male
Birth Name Hans Florian Zimmer
Birthplace Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
Birth Date September 12, 1957
Ethnicity Jewish
Overview Ashkenazi
Nationality German
Career Film score composer, record producer
Color Season Dark Autumn
Notes and Motifs
Scored over 150 films, with roughly 50 nominated for awards
Known for his versatility across genres, including animation, action, drama, and comedy
Won two Academy Awards, for The Lion King and Dune, and has been nominated for 11 more for Best Original Score
Also won four Grammys, three Golden Globes, and a BAFTA
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Zimmer: "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."
Zimmer: "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."
Zimmer: "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."
Zimmer: "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."
Zimmer: "Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround."
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."
Zimmer: "With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it's great fun."