Michael Giacchino Quotes

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Michael Giacchino

Profession : Composer

Birth : October 10, 1967

I've always, always, always listened to music since I was, like, 7 years old and made up stories in my head based on what I was hearing.

Michael Giacchino

When I was 10, I had a group of friends that I used to love to make movies with, and we made them growing up; we did it all through high school.

Michael Giacchino

People on 'The Incredibles' would ask me if I listened to a lot of spy scores, but no, I don't.

Michael Giacchino

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 I don't, I'm not going to work on that project. I really want to have those connections so I can be truthful to the emotional aspect of what I have to deliver for the story.

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I think that to capture food in music, you really are capturing an emotional response to food.

Michael Giacchino

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

Michael Giacchino

'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 something in where someone who's astute will go, 'Oh, he used so-and-so's theme: that must mean so-and-so is coming back!'

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

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When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows on television are probably synthesized, or mostly synthesized, and that's a shame.

Michael Giacchino

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 that I had been listening to Bernard Herrmann all my life.

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

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

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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 the composer kinda just wants to write whatever they want to write, not paying attention to the thing.

Michael Giacchino

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

Michael Giacchino

I used to do puppet shows as a kid - me and my brother would do them - and then any poor soul who came into the house had to sit and watch our puppet shows.

Michael Giacchino

Of everything I've done in my career, or whatever you want to call it, 'Lost' is the purest version of me musically.

Michael Giacchino

I grew up with so many different sounds, and 'Lost' allows me to express all of it, the melodic and the atonal.

Michael Giacchino

For some reason, as a kid, I felt outwardly embarrassed to say that I liked rock music. I don't know where that came from. For me, it just wasn't cool - orchestral music was cool.

Michael Giacchino

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

Michael Giacchino

I don't like working all hours of the night and having an unreliable working pattern.

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