Carter Burwell Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Romantic, Hair, Comedy

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• I just love the sheer mess of New York.

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  New York, Mess, Sheer

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• 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.

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  Stars, War, Opportunity

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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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  Thinking, Quality, Carefree

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• I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

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  Lobbying, Projects, Filmmaker

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• Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

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  Directors, Would Be, Instruction

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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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  Media, Connections, Film

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• I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

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  Listening, 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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• I think being a little nuts is helpful.

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  Thinking, Nuts, Littles

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