"Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help."
-Carter Burwell
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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
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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."
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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
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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
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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."
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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."
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-John Callahan
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"Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny."
-Will Eisner
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"We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor."
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"You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button."
-Mel Karmazin
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