Hans Zimmer On His New Concert Film, Nolan And Villeneuve War Stories & Writing For Doris: The Deadline Interview
deadline.com“I don’t write for directors, I don’t write for producers, and I certainly don’t write for movie studios,” Hans Zimmer says in his new concert film Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert.
So, for whom does the Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer of more than 150 films including Inception, Dune and The Lion King write his iconic music if not the films and host of reputable directors he’s worked with across the past four decades? “I have this fictitious figure in my head,” Zimmer tells Deadline from his Remote Control Productions studio in Santa Monica. “She’s called Doris.
She lives in Bradford in the UK. She’s a single mom with two unruly kids and her hands are red from the cold and working really hard.
She does an amazing job to keep these children fed and pay the rent and fight the fight. So, come the weekend, she has a choice: She can go to the pub with her mates, or they can go and see a movie.
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