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“Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Narrative #Adhesive #Film
“Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Death #Giving #Our Society
“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.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Sleep #People #May
“I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Thinking #Done #Parks
“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

#Views #Taste #Sides
“Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Crazy #People #Big Sur
“I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Lobbying #Projects #Filmmaker
“Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Directors #Would Be #Instruction
“Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Media #Connections #Film
“I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Listening #Film
“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

#Thinking #Quality #Carefree
“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

#Stars #War #Opportunity
“I just love the sheer mess of New York.”
-- Carter Burwell

#New York #Mess
“In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Romantic Love #Hair #Comedy
“If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Fun #Ignorance #Bliss
“There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Being Happy #People #Irony
“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

#Inspiring #Faces #Urban
“When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Hurt #Tragedy #Helping
“I like business and personal life to be distinct.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Hygiene #Personal Life
“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.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Hero #Ties #Score
“I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.”
-- 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

#Wish #Cinema #Facts
“I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Dark #Light #Balance
“I think being a little nuts is helpful.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Thinking #Nuts #Littles
“I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Trying #Want #Audience
“Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Interest
“John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Teenager #Firsts #Film
“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

#Matter #Towns #Los Angeles
“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.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Missing #Cuffs #Able
“All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.”
-- Carter Burwell

#Simple #Music Is #Melody

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