Quotes By Carter Burwell
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.
Carter Burwell
New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.
Carter Burwell
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.
Carter Burwell
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.
Carter Burwell
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
Carter Burwell
Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
Carter Burwell
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
Carter Burwell
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
Carter Burwell
I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.
Carter Burwell
Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
Carter Burwell
John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
Carter Burwell
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
Carter Burwell
A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
Carter Burwell
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.
Carter Burwell
Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.
Carter Burwell