Michael Giacchino Quotes

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Michael Giacchino

Profession : Composer

Birth : October 10, 1967

I always feel like my writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything, you know.

Michael Giacchino

I even went to film school at School of Visual Arts in New York City. And then, after that, I got a day job at Universal publicity department, then moved over to Disney publicity department. So I had this day job, and at night I would study music.

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I like the sounds of real, living, breathing musicians. When a real person plays something, there's a soul. They're giving you their emotions.

Michael Giacchino

I love Glenn Gould. Max Steiner. John Williams. Louis Prima. Benny Goodman. Miles Davis. John Philip Sousa.

Michael Giacchino

I grew up listening to every style of music you can imagine, and I have a love for all of it.

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

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Because of John Williams, I began collecting all kinds of film scores. I listened to them when I fell asleep, and it was through my obsessive listening that I learned what all the different parts of the orchestra were. I learnt a great deal from him by just simply listening.

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I think Mozart, with all his impatience in writing, would have loved it. It would have allowed him to write twice as much. He would have loved a Mac. If he'd had a laptop, he would have been unstoppable.

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In 'Ratatouille,' there are two different themes that express the two sides of Remy's personality: the creative side: the chef, and the 'thief' side: his nature as a mouse.

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Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?

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Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to work.

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My entire life was making movies.

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I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it for whatever reason. I'm just so influenced by the music that I listened to growing up, a lot of it out of the '60s, so it has a natural tendency to feel like it's from another era.

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As an audience member, everyone I talk to is like, 'I'm so excited to see 'Super 8.' I'm so excited to see it.' And part of that is because of his drive to make sure that it stays hidden until the last minute.

Michael Giacchino

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

Michael Giacchino

I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.

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There are a lot of guys who do this job, and they have tons of assistants. They all kind of write together, and for me, it's basically me here in this room, and that's it.

Michael Giacchino

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 and always try to take a cue from that.

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When you're starting out in this business, it's very easy to want to say yes to everything that's offered to you.

Michael Giacchino

I think that one of the things I'd learned from being so attentive to the careers of the people I've admired is the fact that they would say 'no' a lot. Early on, I took that as a cue to only work on things that I knew I would be passionate about.

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