Obviously, you've begun a healthy film career. Eventually something breaks in your brain and you say, 'I want to do video games'?
TL;DRZanelli says he always wanted to do games as an Atari-era gamer and likes moving between games, film and television rather than sticking to one genre.
No, well, I always did, though. It's funny because I'm a gamer with Atari roots, right? That's where it started for me. So I'm the old generation of video gamers. But I think, in a way, the 90s is really kind of the perfect time to illustrate when video game music got super serious. Do you know what I mean? That was when you started to hear fully orchestral scores. It was like for a minute there, games were promoting themselves as, oh, we have a full Hollywood-sounding score. And nowadays, I don't see that type of promotion, because I think the games industry has recognized very clearly: we're doing our own thing now. Do you know what I mean? It's a genre, and it's actually very different in some ways from film and television, which is also... it's almost like a third category. I'm a little bit lucky I get to do all three of those things, but some composers excel in games or they excel in television or they excel in film, but not the others. So, I don't know, I was always built in the way that I wanted to spread out and do something different. The conversation I have with my agent all the time is, what I want to do next is something totally different from whatever I finished, whatever that means. So I'm not necessarily the composer that's going to do only superhero movies or only sci-fi video games or only horror movies. I love, love, love that I get to just go all over the place. That's probably why it doesn't feel like work. I still feel like I'm playing around a lot.