54 Quotes by Carter Burwell

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.

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

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.

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.

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

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

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.

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.