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I just love the sheer mess of New York.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
New York
Mess
Sheer
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I think being a little nuts is helpful.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Littles
Nuts
Thinking
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If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Bliss
Fun
Ignorance
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I like business and personal life to be distinct.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Hygiene
Personal Life
Distinct
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There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Being Happy
Irony
People
People Happy Being
Screen
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I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Prefer
Seriously
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Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Awakened
Interest
Improvise
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All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Melody
Music Is
Simple
Stated
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I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Celtic
Gaelic
Scottish
Music Always Loved
Loved
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Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Big Sur
Crazy
Crazy People
People
Attracts
Continent
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When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Helping
Hurt
Tragedy
Systems
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I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Directors
Enjoy
Please
Writing
Enjoying
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The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Inspirational
Flow
Studio
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I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Filmmaker
Lobbying
Projects
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I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Lobbying
Myself Me Always
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How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Audience
Doe
Mystery
Complete
Complete Mystery
Connect
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Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Coen
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Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Death
Society
Giving
Helping
Our Society
Around
Corner
Often
Gives
Help
Inordinate
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Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Performing
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Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Adhesive
Connecting
Film
Narrative
Subliminal
Feature
Feature Films
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I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Balance
Dark
Light
Interests
Personally
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I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Audience
Trying
Want
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I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
New York
Backwards
Looks
Old World
World
World New Old
Forwards
Resolutely
Toward
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Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Connections
Film
Media
Connection
Medium
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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.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Humor
Sense Of Humor
Sides
Taste
Views
Side
Darker
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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.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Composer
Film
Firsts
Soundtracks
Teenager
Aware
Barry
Bond
John
Owned
Several
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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.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Film
Listening
Music Myself Listening
Generally
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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.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Movie
Actors
Done
Psycho
Thinking
Horror Movie
Iii
Park
Romantic Comedy
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In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Romantic
Comedy
Genre
Hair
Mainstream
Comedies
Romantic Comedies
Tearing
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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.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Kids
Children
Lessons
Piano
Piano Lessons
Quit
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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.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Hero
Score
Ties
Barry
Bond
James
James Bond
John
Scores
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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.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Directors
Instruction
Worth Living
Would Be
Life Living Worth
Carefully
Execute
Producer
Studio
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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.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Quality
Aspect
Carefree
Pleasure
Thinking
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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.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Opportunity
War
Destroyed
Genre
Musical
One Time
Science Fiction
Stars
Wars
Offered
Opportunities
Star Wars
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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.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Los Angeles
Matter
Personnel
Subject Matter
Towns
Angeles
Disadvantage
Facilities
Los
Subject
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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.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Deadline
May
People
Sleep
Health Good People
Helps
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New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Cutting
Cutting Edge
Mess
New Yorkers
Edge
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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.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Inspiring
Environmental
Faces
Natural Environment
Slap
Urban
Stimulating
Extremely
Jarring
Remote
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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.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Brain
Brain Surgery
Directors
Shooting
Something New
Surgery
Always Brain Me
Suddenly
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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.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Absurd
Admirable
Cinema
Facts
Wish
More Wish I Wish
John
Reasons
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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 / Film Score Composer
Able
Conducting
Cuffs
Missing
Subtle
Aspects
Grasp
Quickly
Realized
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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.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Instrumentation
Musical
Unique
Voice
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Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.
Carter Burwell / Film Score Composer
Accomplish
Executives
Producer
Studio
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