Best Carter Burwell Quotes
- 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… Change
- When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy. Actually Hurt
- I like business and personal life to be distinct. Business
- 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. Barry
- I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously. Funny
- 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… Absurd
- I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark. Balance
- Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. Adhesive
- I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience. Almost Never
- I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it. Awfully
- Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. Always Around
- There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen. Happy
- The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive. Flow
- Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films. Career
- 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… Accomplish
- 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… Cutting
- Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me. Interesting