Michael Giacchino

I always liked melody.

— Michael Giacchino

I love percussive instrumentation.

— Michael Giacchino

My entire life was making movies.

— Michael Giacchino

Life is #1 on the agenda, and #2 is work.

— Michael Giacchino

I try to keep a regular work schedule.

— Michael Giacchino

I think the Wachowskis are two of my favorite people on the planet; they're the best.

— Michael Giacchino

Most television, the music is very much the same from show to show.

— Michael Giacchino

When I was 9, I saw 'Star Wars,' and it set me on a path to where I am today.

— Michael Giacchino

I made tons of stop motion films with my friends in my neighborhood.

— Michael Giacchino

As a kid I was obsessed with monster movies.

— Michael Giacchino

There's so much fun you can have with your instruments that no one ever taught you.

— Michael Giacchino

I work on the types of movies that I would have loved watching as a kid.

— Michael Giacchino

I've been pretty lucky in that I'm not a big writer's block kind of person.

— Michael Giacchino

Many film scores try to force an emotion into a story that inherently is not there in the first place.

— Michael Giacchino

Nothing can grab you by the throat - or heart or soul - like an orchestra. It's undeniably the most engaging and…

— Michael Giacchino

A lot of people have said it to me 'You made me cry.' And it was only because I cried myself when…

— Michael Giacchino

'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

One of the things I was never thrilled about with 'Medal of Honor' was that it was non-stop music.

— Michael Giacchino

I always thought of 'Lost' as a psychotic opera. Because there were so many characters, it was important for me to track…

— Michael Giacchino

When artists find other artists that they love to work with, they more than likely will continue to work with them throughout…

— Michael Giacchino

I think I learned everything about comedy and timing and drama from watching 'The Muppet Show,' which was one of the best…

— Michael Giacchino

I feel like I have a group of friends, guys could be interchanged with my neighbors from back home. These guys are…

— Michael Giacchino

I was fortunate enough in my public school that they had a full music program, and no one escaped it. It was…

— Michael Giacchino

I feel like I leave every single project feeling like I didn't quite do as good as I wanted to do on…

— Michael Giacchino

I even went to film school at School of Visual Arts in New York City. And then, after that, I got a…

— Michael Giacchino

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

There was a paperwork mishap on 'War For The Planet Of The Apes,' in that the end credits was simply called 'End…

— Michael Giacchino

Because of John Williams, I began collecting all kinds of film scores. I listened to them when I fell asleep, and it…

— Michael Giacchino

I grew up listening to 'Planet of the Apes' and other scores, and it was fun for me because you weren't just…

— Michael Giacchino

When you present something that you have worked on to somebody else, for some reason that is the moment when you can…

— Michael Giacchino

When I was nine, I asked my Dad, ‘Can I have your movie camera? That old, wind-up 8-millimeter movie camera that’s in…

— Michael Giacchino

I like live musicians and personally orchestrate about 80 to 90% of all my scores.

— Michael Giacchino

If you look at my credits, most of them are the same directors over and over.

— Michael Giacchino

I love classic animation, and I especially love classic cartoon music.

— Michael Giacchino

The 'Jonny Quest' theme had a huge influence on me while I was growing up.

— Michael Giacchino

I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way.

— Michael Giacchino

I was never one of those people that would just take jobs that were thrown at me.

— Michael Giacchino

I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life.

— Michael Giacchino

For me, growing-up music was always about telling stories.

— Michael Giacchino

When you write for an orchestra, the sky's the limit.

— Michael Giacchino