Quotes from 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.

I watched 'Land of the Lost' as a kid, you know, incessantly. I loved it. Me and my brother watched it every Saturday.

If you listen to a score from beginning to end, you should envision the entire film in your head.

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.

When I was a kid, there was no DVD, no VHS. The only way to re-live a movie once it was out of the theater was to listen to its film score.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Without my experiences on the likes of 'Lost' and 'Alias,' I don't know if I would have survived 'Rogue One.'

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

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.

My dad had these great Benny Goodman albums that I was obsessed with, and Louis Prima's another guy I loved, and Peter Niro the jazz pianist. I loved international music: Irish music, Mexican music. I love the different colours that they all have.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.