Best 29 quotes of Carter Burwell on MyQuotes

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.

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

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

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

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

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

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

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.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

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.

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

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

I just love the sheer mess of New York.

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

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.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

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.

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

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.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

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.

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

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.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

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