Michael Giacchino Quotes

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Michael Giacchino

Profession : Composer

Birth : October 10, 1967

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

Michael Giacchino

For me, the music is always speaking from the point of view of the characters. Rarely do you score an event.

Michael Giacchino

Sometimes people do things because they are sad or because they are upset or were hurt by other people.

Michael Giacchino

I was fortunate enough in my public school that they had a full music program, and no one escaped it. It was treated as a subject that was as important as everything else, and I believe it is.

Michael Giacchino

Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.

Michael Giacchino

That's the time I remember as a kid, being so excited to go to the movies. To be part of that now is really an amazing gift.

Michael Giacchino

When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an animator.

Michael Giacchino

My dad gave me his camera, so I spent my childhood making movies with the kids in the neighborhood as actors.

Michael Giacchino

My parents loved music, but they weren't musicians. So my musical training as a young kid was limited to piano lessons. I was not the best student; I was awful, never practiced. But I was always interested in just messing around on the piano.

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 there was a lot of down time during rehearsals. I would go into the orchestra pit and mess around on the grand piano.

Michael Giacchino

I like to write a piece of music that reflects how I felt about a film as opposed to, here's this action scene; here's this set piece.

Michael Giacchino

I love percussive instrumentation.

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 listening to those scores, but you were also questioning what you were listening to. What are those sounds?

Michael Giacchino

That's one of the neat things about 'Call of Duty.' There are areas in the game where we were able to score the gameplay.

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 have an uncle who was heavily involved in World War 2, so over the years, I've talked to him many times.

Michael Giacchino

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

Michael Giacchino

I started out as a producer. and I used to work at Disney. and I worked with a lot of the animators and went on to become great friends with a lot of these guys and worked on a lot of projects together.

Michael Giacchino

If you have a bad story on your hands, you have a bad story on your hands, and no amount of score re-working is gonna save that.

Michael Giacchino

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

Michael Giacchino