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

#back #barry #bond #bond movies #hero

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#barry #bond #composer #film #first

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#how #improvise #interest #learning #music

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

#angeles #disadvantage #everyone #facilities #great

Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#anything #audience #constantly #executives #film

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#feature #feature films #film #films #least

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

#cutting edge #edge #especially #ever #exciting

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

#admirable #being #cinema #enjoy #fact

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#i #interesting #me #music #performing

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#inspirational #into #studio #well