A fascinating interview. I like much of Zimmer's work (especially his work with Christopher Nolan, and most especially Interstellar), but at the same time, I do rather despair of the way so many modern composers have abandoned melody and the traditional orchestral approach. I rather think they are trying to emulate Zimmer and often do so badly. He is, after all, responsible for what I call the "Nolan drone", which originated in Inception. We now get variations of it endlessly in films and especially in trailers. It's a bit of an eye-roll.

Personally, I'd like to see a return to traditional melody based scoring in mainstream Hollywood, with real orchestras. I'm a bit old-fashioned about such things, to be honest. John Williams is still my favourite film composer by a long distance (I want to believe he is immortal), but most of my other favourites are dead, alas - Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, Ennio Morricone, John Barry, Dimitri Tiomkin, Alex North, and so on.