Carter Burwell Quotes
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 think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
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With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.
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I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.
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The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.
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People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.
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We actually went public partly because we wanted companies to realise we were not going away.
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Technology is changing the world; it's changing our sport. It's changing the way people are following the NBA.
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I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
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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.
