Most television, the music is very much the same from show to show. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I love classic animation, and I especially love classic cartoon music. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I like live musicians and personally orchestrate about 80 to 90% of all my scores. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I like the sounds of real, living, breathing musicians. When a real person plays something, there's a soul. They're giving you their… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
'Lost,' at its core, is a science-fiction show. Live music helps lend an air of legitimacy to this otherwise crazy storyline. It… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
One of the things I was never thrilled about with 'Medal of Honor' was that it was non-stop music. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I like to write a piece of music that reflects how I felt about a film as opposed to, here's this action… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I've always, always, always listened to music since I was, like, 7 years old and made up stories in my head based… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I always loved movies like 'King Kong' and 'Planet of the Apes,' monster movies, Ray Harryhausen films, all of that stuff. I… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I like to think that I probably have written more World War II music than anyone on the planet after all the… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
More often than not, I'm worried about, where shouldn't we have music? Because the tendency is just to put everything everywhere all… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
For some reason, as a kid, I felt outwardly embarrassed to say that I liked rock music. I don't know where that… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
My parents loved music, but they weren't musicians. So my musical training as a young kid was limited to piano lessons. I… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
You've all seen movies where the music isn't working with the story. And it's either because... the story isn't working itself. Or… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough in my public school that they had a full music program, and no one escaped it. It was… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I even went to film school at School of Visual Arts in New York City. And then, after that, I got a… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
It wasn't until high school that I actually started writing. I was in a lot of the school plays and musicals, and… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would listen to anything that had a live orchestra or ensemble playing, so that covered everything from show… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
My dad had a great record collection, which included some music from Mexico, and so I always loved it. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
For me, the music is always speaking from the point of view of the characters. Rarely do you score an event. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to every style of music you can imagine, and I have a love for all of it. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I think that to capture food in music, you really are capturing an emotional response to food. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it for whatever reason. I'm just so influenced by the music that I… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
My dad had these great Benny Goodman albums that I was obsessed with, and Louis Prima's another guy I loved, and Peter… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
Brad Bird is fond of saying that music is the easiest thing that can derail a film because if it slightly goes… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I don't like working all hours of the night and having an unreliable working pattern. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share
I've always looked at guys who I've admired, like John Williams and Lalo Schifrin and Max Steiner, and looked at the choices they made… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share
'Lost' is such a thematic show that I'm always afraid that if I know something's going to happen at the end, I'll subconsciously write… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share
I think that to capture food in music, you really are capturing an emotional response to food. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share
When I was a kid, there was no DVD, no VHS. The only way to re-live a movie once it was out of the… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share
Brad Bird is fond of saying that music is the easiest thing that can derail a film because if it slightly goes a degree… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share
For me, I always go back to when I was 10 years old and, I think between the time I was 10 and going… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share
Without my experiences on the likes of 'Lost' and 'Alias,' I don't know if I would have survived 'Rogue One.' — Michael Giacchino Copy Share
A lot of people have said it to me 'You made me cry.' And it was only because I cried myself when I watched… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share
I watched 'Land of the Lost' as a kid, you know, incessantly. I loved it. Me and my brother watched it every Saturday. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share
I was obsessed with 'The Twilight Zone' as a kid, and one of those things I didn't realize until I was in college was… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share
Hopefully, by the time I do a project, I already have a true understanding and love of what I'm about to do because if… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share
I was fortunate enough in my public school that they had a full music program, and no one escaped it. It was treated as… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share
