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Michael Giacchino Quotes
Michael Giacchino Quotes
Michael Giacchino
American
Composer
Born:
Oct 10
,
1967
Lost
Love
Me
Music
Work
You
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I think the Wachowskis are two of my favorite people on the planet; they're the best.
Michael Giacchino
Best
People
Think
Favorite
Favorite People
Planet
Two
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.
Michael Giacchino
Writing
Think
Mac
Would
Impatience
Write
Had
Allowed
He
Unstoppable
Him
Been
His
Loved
Mozart
Much
Laptop
Twice
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.
Michael Giacchino
Work
People
Think
Took
Say
One Of The Things
Would
Would-Be
Admired
About
Only
Fact
Knew
Attentive
Learned
Cue
Passionate
Lot
Being
Things
Early
Careers
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.
Michael Giacchino
Work
Art
You
Please Everyone
Difficult
Everyone
Please
Way
Always
Going
Want
My entire life was making movies.
Michael Giacchino
Life
Entire
Entire Life
Making
Making Movies
Movies
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.
Michael Giacchino
Music
Natural
Writing
Whatever
Think
Out
Tendency
Feel
Like
Another
Era
Lot
Up
Listened
Just
Influenced
Natural Tendency
Reason
Old-Fashioned
Growing
Growing Up
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
Drive
Last-Minute
Everyone
Hidden
Member
See
Super
Minute
Stays
Part
Excited
Like
Talk
Until
Make
Sure
Because
Audience
Audience Member
His
Last
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.
Michael Giacchino
Try
Made
Williams
John
Admired
Guys
Take
Like
Looked
Always
Cue
Max
Choices
Who
Sometimes people do things because they are sad or because they are upset or were hurt by other people.
Michael Giacchino
Sad
Hurt
People
Sometimes
Other
Because
Were
Upset
Things
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
School
Important
Believe
Enough
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Had
No-One
Subject
Escaped
Public
Full
Fortunate
Public School
Treated
Program
Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.
Michael Giacchino
Music
Immensely
Math
Skills
Help
Helps
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
Time
Gift
Remember
Amazing
Kid
Part
Excited
Go
Being
Movies
Really
Now
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
Love
Kid
Would
Animation
Animator
Particular
Make
Been
Wanted
Loved
Movies
My dad gave me his camera, so I spent my childhood making movies with the kids in the neighborhood as actors.
Michael Giacchino
Me
Gave
Spent
Neighborhood
Kids
Making
Making Movies
Camera
His
Childhood
Movies
Dad
Actor
I love percussive instrumentation.
Michael Giacchino
Love
Instrumentation
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
War
World
Uncle
Over
Involved
Him
Talked
Years
Times
Who
Many
World War
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
Crazy
You
Writing
Everything
Collage
Consistently
Feel
Like
Know
Always
Up
Listened
Just
Influenced
Growing
Growing Up
Watched
People on 'The Incredibles' would ask me if I listened to a lot of spy scores, but no, I don't.
Michael Giacchino
Me
People
Would
Lot
Scores
Spy
Listened
Ask
I grew up listening to every style of music you can imagine, and I have a love for all of it.
Michael Giacchino
Love
Music
You
Listening
Style
Every
Up
Grew
Imagine
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.
Michael Giacchino
Work
Love
Time
Understanding
Project
Those
Hopefully
About
Emotional
Deliver
True
Because
Truthful
Going
Want
Story
Really
Aspect
Connections
By The Time
Most television, the music is very much the same from show to show.
Michael Giacchino
Music
Television
Most
Very
Same
Much
Show
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.
Michael Giacchino
Life
Listening
College
My Life
Kid
Those
All My Life
Bernard
Had
Obsessed
Until
Been
Realize
Twilight
Things
Zone
I made tons of stop motion films with my friends in my neighborhood.
Michael Giacchino
Made
Films
Neighborhood
Motion
Friends
Stop
Tons
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
Best
Comedy
Timing
Think
Drama
Everything
About
Learned
Which
Produced
Show
Shows
Ever
Muppet
Watching
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
Me
You
Lost
Whatever
Everything
Musically
Purest
Call
Version
Done
Want
Career
I grew up with so many different sounds, and 'Lost' allows me to express all of it, the melodic and the atonal.
Michael Giacchino
Me
Lost
Melodic
Sounds
Up
Different
Grew
Different Sounds
Many
Express
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