Michael Giacchino

“My dad gave me his camera, so I spent my childhood making movies with the kids in the neighborhood as actors.”

“Many film scores try to force an emotion into a story that inherently is not there in the first place.”

“My dad had a great record collection, which included some music from Mexico, and so I always loved it.”

“In 'Ratatouille,' there are two different themes that express the two sides of Remy's personality: the creative side: the chef, and the 'thief' side: his nature as a mouse.”

“When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an animator.”

“Sometimes people do things because they are sad or because they are upset or were hurt by other people.”

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

“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.”

“I was never one of those people that would just take jobs that were thrown at me.”

“As a kid I was obsessed with monster movies.”

“'Lost,' at its core, is a science-fiction show. Live music helps lend an air of legitimacy to this otherwise crazy storyline. It makes a big difference.”

“I love Batman.”

“I grew up listening to every style of music you can imagine, and I have a love for all of it.”

“I always feel like my writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything, you know.”

“Of everything I've done in my career, or whatever you want to call it, 'Lost' is the purest version of me musically.”

“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 grew up with so many different sounds, and 'Lost' allows me to express all of it, the melodic and the atonal.”

“Hopefully, by the time I do a project, I already have a true understanding and love of what I'm about to do because if I don't, I'm not going to work on that project. I really want to have those connections so I can be truthful to the emotional aspect of what I have to deliver for the story.”

“I watched 'Land of the Lost' as a kid, you know, incessantly. I loved it. Me and my brother watched it every Saturday.”

“I like to think that I probably have written more World War II music than anyone on the planet after all the 'Medal of Honors' and 'Call of Duties.'”