On Monday, actor Gerard Butler partook in a direct-to-fan "Ask Me Anything" interview on Reddit. Amongst the topics fielded were the 300 actor’s music preferences. 

We tracked down some of the Scottish stallion’s selections for you, along with excerpts from the conversation. You can read Gerard’s full interview here.

“I was filming REIGN OF FIRE – I was filming in Dublin, and I went to see HANNIBAL the movie, which I didn't particularly enjoy, but when the music came on at the end, I felt like I had been touched by God - and when everyone was walking out at the end, I felt like yelling at them ‘What the eff are you doing? Do you hear this music?’”

“you guys should check out another composer called Max Richter, who did that animated movie about the attack in Lebanon - WALTZ WITH BASHIR.”

“A lot of strange and operatic music, from Sigur Rós to Mogwai to Oliver Arnold to Damien Rice to Counting Crows to the Rolling Stones to U2”

“But I'm most inspired by a lot of operatic movie and movie composers like Hans Zimmer…”