Carter Burwell Quotes
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I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.
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In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
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I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.
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Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
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I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
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If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
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I think being a little nuts is helpful.
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John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
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Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
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I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
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Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.
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The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.
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There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
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I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
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All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
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John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
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When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
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How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
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Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
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I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
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On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
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I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
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I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
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I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
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Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.
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If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.
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I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
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Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
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I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.
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Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.
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