The secret to getting hired at Remote Control Productions

[d.healey]

So I was watching the Hans Zimmer masterclass and I notice that one of his filler words/phrases is "you know". And then I was watching a John Powell interview and again lots of "you know", and the same with Jeff Rona, and the same with Harry Gregson Williams, and Trevor Rabin, and Nick Glennie-Smith, and Steve Jablonsky, and Henry Jackman, etc.

So I think as long as you say "you know" a lot at your Remote Control Productions interview (I assume they do interviews) you will get the gig.

More seriously is "you know" a common filler phrase in LA?

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[MA-Simon]

Could be. In a lot of interviews it is important that people "click" with the interviewer. So sharing a similar vocabulary and manerism might trigger positiv psychological feedback.

 

[JonFairhurst]

I grew up in LA. "You know" was a common "filler" at least back to the 1960s. Older people called it a bad habit at the time, but it was, um, the way kids talked back then, you know.

 

[Soundhound]

It's like, you know, probably something like that.

 

[germancomponist]

Say "I don't know and I am willing to learn....", and maybe then you will be hired.

 

[SterlingArcher]

Say "I don't know and I am willing to learn....", and maybe then you will be hired.

You can also say "I can work an espresso machine". IIRC that's how Hans got his job with Stanley Myers.