MICHAEL GIACCHINO

For some reason, as a kid, I felt outwardly embarrassed to say that I liked rock music. I don't know where that came from. For me, it just wasn't cool - orchestral music was cool.

As a kid I was obsessed with monster movies.

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 you're starting out in this business, it's very easy to want to say yes to everything that's offered to you.

If you look at my credits, most of them are the same directors over and over.

When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows on television are probably synthesized, or mostly synthesized, and that's a shame.

When I was a kid, there was no DVD, no VHS. The only way to re-live a movie once it was out of the theater was to listen to its film score.

Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to work.

As an audience member, everyone I talk to is like, 'I'm so excited to see 'Super 8.' I'm so excited to see it.' And part of that is because of his drive to make sure that it stays hidden until the last minute.

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

There was a time that I did 'Up,' 'Star Trek' and 'Land of the Lost,' and I was working on 'Lost,' at the same time, and that was really hard.

I have an uncle who was heavily involved in World War 2, so over the years, I've talked to him many times.

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

I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life.

I think that one of the things I'd learned from being so attentive to the careers of the people I've admired is the fact that they would say 'no' a lot. Early on, I took that as a cue to only work on things that I knew I would be passionate about.

I try to keep a regular work schedule.

I love Batman.

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

People on 'The Incredibles' would ask me if I listened to a lot of spy scores, but no, I don't.

I started out as a producer. and I used to work at Disney. and I worked with a lot of the animators and went on to become great friends with a lot of these guys and worked on a lot of projects together.

My great uncle, my mom's uncle, had an appliance store in Philadelphia, and it was called Peter's TV. They sold stereos and televisions and washers, dryers, all kinds of stuff.

I've been pretty lucky in that I'm not a big writer's block kind of person.

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

I've always, always, always listened to music since I was, like, 7 years old and made up stories in my head based on what I was hearing.

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