Michael Giacchino Quotes

My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was.

My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.

As early as I can remember, I would put on plays with my cousin and make my dad record them. In kindergarten, I started doing the school plays, and it just continued.

Since when I was little, I would always write a script and tell my sister, 'Read this line. I'm going to film it.'

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

When I was young, with my brothers, we'd make movies all the time, and that was never scripted.

When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.

My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.

When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday... that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.

I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.

I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.

My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

My father was a writer/director/producer, so instead of throwing a ball around, our bonding was going to see movies. And at an early age, I knew if I wanted to impress my dad, it was not going to be by throwing a ball real far.

I remember, when I was a little kid playing with the 25 Legos I had, I thought, 'If I just had a camera, I could film different setups and make it look like I have way more Legos and tell a story.' I didn't get a camera, though, until I basically got an iPhone.

I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed.