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
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
I don’t personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark. – Carter Burwell
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
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
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
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
John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks. – Carter Burwell
Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium. – Carter Burwell
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
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
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. – Carter Burwell
Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living. – Carter Burwell
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
I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards. – Carter Burwell
