Michael Giacchino Quotes

So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

I've been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

My profession is called record production.

I would like to do more film scoring, period. Whether it is a big film, a small film, or just anything. I feel like I have a lot to learn, and what better way to do it than on the job?

I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.

For me, what people generally call sound design is just one component of orchestrating a score.

You can get away with a lot more in a film or television score. It is contextual.

I've always wanted to go into film scoring.

It's not unusual to have only three weeks to score a picture. And that's three weeks from signing on to finishing the last recording session. That's how I did 'The Queen' and, more recently, it's how I did 'The Imitation Game.'

I very much enjoy working with talented filmmakers who have a good sense for music, who have a strong feel for music and for what music can do in a film.

I write music for film because I love it.

I design music; I don't produce it.

My high school was what crafted my interest in recording.

Music for films allow a great deal of diversity and the more you widen your skills, the better you become.

There's a lot of electronic surround-sound music, and I've done a lot of work where I write music for other people to move around a space.

The producer role attracts introverts. Making music on your computer is so appealing to someone who just sits in their room all day.

I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first time.

You get the beats. You write to them. You go in the studio and lay it down. Hopefully, a song comes out sounding good. If it comes out sounding good, you put it to the side with the rest of the other good ones, and you try to decide which ones you're gonna use on the album.

My first love is making records, and whatever's necessary in order for me to achieve that, I'll learn how to do it.

I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music is the perfect opportunity to do that, because you can look at the film and then just let your imagination soar.

I think TV composers don't get enough credit. I really think it is one of the hardest jobs.