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Film Quotes by Carter Burwell
- 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…
- Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
- Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
- 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…
- John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
- Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
- I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
- 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…
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- I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. — Dan Aykroyd
- I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. — Amitabh Bachchan
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- I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or… — Amy Adams