Everybody tells you that the youth of today, whoever they are, have a short attention span, and you can’t give them anything decent. That’s complete crap. The youth of today, just like anyone else, like a good story and want to be transported, and to have an experience. They don’t want to be bored, so as long as you move the emotion along, you can do whatever you want to do.
R. O’Connor, “Hans Zimmer: ‘I’m an embarrassing silence without my musicians’”, The Independent, 13 March 2019, https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/hans-zimmer-interview-world-of-tour-lion-king-inception-setlist-gavin-greenaway-a8819741.html (accessed 23 May 2022).
– Hans Zimmer
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