"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
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"Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.“
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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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"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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"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."
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"The whole system of society tells you what to do."
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"That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another."
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"Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society."
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"RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society."
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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
-Sebastian Junger
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