"We're being super private about Inception" the composer told IGN, assuring them that work on the film was coming along and "going well."
"At the same time, I said to Chris this morning, 'I have no idea what to do.' And that's a good place to be, because the worst place to be is where I know exactly what to do because that would mean I'm just going to drag some old junk out of the drawer," Zimmer said. "The terrifying thing is I don't know where the music comes from."
Zimmer also discussed how he created the theme for the Joker in The Dark Knight.
"When we got to Dark Knight, I pretended... nothing we had done existed, because all I wanted to do was figure out how to do the Joker."
"It's not even such an easy thing to say to a director: 'I know the Joker is your main character, and I have this idea, which is it's a single note,'" he said. "And then, how do you get to the next part of the conversation, which could go two ways, which is the director going, 'What? You lazy bastard, you're fired, or, 'Hang on, that's interesting; what do you mean?'"
Unfortunately, Zimmer seems to still be in the dark when it comes to the next Batman movie, "I don't know if there's a Batman 3 or not. I really don't," he insisted. "When Chris tells me a paragraph of a story...at that moment the synapses will start firing. It's as simple as that."
Inception is set to be released in both conventional and IMAX theaters on July 16 later this year.
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