Michael Giacchino Quotes

'Border' was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.

I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.

I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.

There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.

My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.

To me, score is really important. I would rather not have any score if it's something that's going to detract from the film. So often when I watch films, the score is what really bothers me.

My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

My mom used to buy us a whole lot of VHS tapes - we had boxes of them, hundreds of them. So we would just go through movies all the time.

I'm a movie buff. My mom would take me to a double feature. We'd come out, go have Chinese food, and then go back into another cinema and see another double feature. I feel I'm a child of the movies.

I always related my favorite music to the movies.

As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.

Well into the '40s, it wasn't uncommon for big-budget Hollywood movies to contain little or no underscoring, and many of today's directors, following the lead of Martin Scorsese in 'GoodFellas,' accompany their films with pop records, not original music.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

'Shaggy Dog' was a very, very important movie for me. It was a very enjoyable experience.

I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.

I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.

When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently.

The music for 'The Departed' could have been played by an orchestra, but you make a decision about orchestration based on the context of the film. You want the music to broaden the scope of a film, not just repeat what you're seeing.

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.

I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.

We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.