Carter Burwell Quotes

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Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

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Death, Giving, Our Society

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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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Sleep, People, May

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Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

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Adhesive, Narrative, Film

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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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Unique, Voice, Musical

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How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

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Doe, Mystery, Audience

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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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Movie, Thinking, Actors

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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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Dark, Light, Balance

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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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Children, Kids, Piano

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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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Hero, Ties, Score

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If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

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Fun, Ignorance, Bliss

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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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Views, Taste, Sides

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I like business and personal life to be distinct.

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Hygiene, Personal Life

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Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

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Crazy, People, Big Sur

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Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

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Interest, Awakened

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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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New York, Looks, World

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I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

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Writing, Directors, Enjoy

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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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Inspiring, Environmental, Faces

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I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

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Scottish, Gaelic, Celtic

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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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Trying, Want, Audience

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All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

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Simple, Music Is, Melody

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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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Matter, Towns, Los Angeles

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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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Teenager, Firsts, Film

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When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

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Hurt, Tragedy, Helping

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I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.

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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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Wish, Cinema, Facts

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Born: November 18, 1955
Occupation: Film Score Composer
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