"Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help."
-Carter Burwell
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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.“
-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."
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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."
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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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"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."
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"What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older."
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"I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays."
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