Hans Zimmer on manipulating Edith Piaf for ‘Inception’: ‘It’s how you get from one dream level to the next’

Christopher Nolan‘s dream-within-a-dream-heist comes with a taut, damning score, courtesy of the filmmaker’s go-to-composer, Hans Zimmer. Yet the tense, minimal foghorn-like bellows take their inspiration from something far more delicate. Édith Piaf‘s “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” was one of the composer’s prime sources of inspiration for “Inception.”

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