Hans Zimmer

Completely self-taught, he learned everything he knows through collaboration and experimenting.

I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with Le Roi lion (1994), I wrote over four hours' worth of tunes, and they were really pretty - but totally meaningless. So in the end I came up with material I liked. We worked on The Lion King for four years, but I wasn't toying until the last three-and-a-half weeks properly. On USS Alabama (1995), on the other hand, I just went in and within seconds I knew what I wanted.