115 Quotes by Michael Giacchino

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

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

'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!'

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

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 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.

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

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

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.