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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.
Carter Burwell
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If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.
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I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.
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Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.
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Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
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I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
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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.
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When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
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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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Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
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Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.
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There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
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