Carter Burwell Quotes
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I like business and personal life to be distinct.
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Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
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I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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I just love the sheer mess of New York.
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Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.
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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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Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
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There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
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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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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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I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
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I think being a little nuts is helpful.
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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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I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.
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If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
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When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.