Michael Giacchino Quotes

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about.

I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

'The Waterdance' was made for all the right reasons. Everybody that was involved in the film gave it their all.

It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.

I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing.

I really feel like you shouldn't make a movie as a kind of exercise. You have to be all the way in.

It is very important for an artiste to be excited about her work in every phase of her career. If a tiredness seeps into one's attitude, it will show in the quality of one's work.

We have to make some movies we have passion for, respect for.

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

Growing up, I learned that if you are passionate about something, that you can move mountains. Passion is more precious than gold, and it's a currency that everyone craves. It's something that's hard to fake, and when it's real, everyone wants to be on that train. It's about giving people something that they can believe.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.

You can't connect with something you're not passionate about.

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.