PANELIST

Hans Zimmer

Composer

“My mother was a refugee in England during the Second World War, and Steve McQueen gave me one direction. He said, ‘After you watch this film, you will understand your mother better.’ … He was absolutely correct.”

PANELISTS

Clément Ducol

Composer/ Songwriter

Camille

Composer/ Songwriter

“We went from protest bluesy song, then we went to a funky song, then hip hop, then we ended up with one that suits Zoe very well. It’s very rhythmical with a live band behind it.”

PANELIST

Harry Gregson-Williams

Composer

“I called [Hans Zimmer] and said, ‘Look, I don’t see any negative reason to not use your theme in a couple spots.’ … So that was the plan, and I hope when you see the film in a couple of spots it’ll give you a warm and fuzzy feeling.”

PANELIST

John Debney

Composer

“I said, ‘Kevin, I think what you want is something like How the West Was Won, which had these rich Alfred Newman themes.’ And so that’s really what he wanted. … And he happened to say, ‘Oh, that’s my favorite Western!’ I lucked out.”

PANELISTS

Toto Miranda

The Octopus Project/Composer

Yvonne Lambert

The Octopus Project/Composer

Josh Lambert

The Octopus Project/Composer

“There was one part when we were working on [Sasquatch Sunset] where David said, ‘I challenge you to make this weirder.’ That’s just like a dream come true. That’s what I wanted to hear.”

PANELIST

Savan Kotecha 

Songwriter

“In the movie, you would have to believe that this band is real. In creating the songs, I didn’t want to write movie songs. I wanted these songs to be competitive.”

PANELISTs

Andrew Wyatt

Composer/ Songwriter/ Producer

Lykke Li

Songwriter

“It’s not so much aging I find, also the melancholy, the time passing. I wanted to find the symbol for female beauty in a way. That’s when we came to the rose. A rose is very vital, romantic, but it also withers.”

PANELISTs

Diane Warren

Songwriter

Aaron Zigman

Composer

“I don’t know if I’ve heard a performance like that. When you see it in a movie too, I saw cynical record company people there at the screenings starting to sob.”

PANELIST

Kris Bowers 

Composer

“Deciding to play piano from that angry headache, 30 minutes later I was like I’m actually not that angry anymore. It’s really a coping mechanism honestly. That’s why I feel like I can express myself in films like this.”

PANELIST

Sean Douglas

Songwriter

“All songwriting, at least in my world of different co-writes of combinations of people all the time, is very like, ‘Yes, and…’ ”