115 Quotes by Michael Giacchino

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

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 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.

I like the sounds of real, living, breathing musicians. When a real person plays something, there's a soul. They're giving you their emotions.

Filmmaking is hard enough as it is. If you can find a group you love working with, it makes it just a little bit easier.

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

As a kid I was obsessed with monster movies.

I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.

I work on the types of movies that I would have loved watching as a kid.