Carter Burwell
Carter Burwell
Carter Benedict Burwellis an American composer of film scores. He has frequently collaborated with the Coen brothers, having scored 15 of their films. Burwell has scored three of Todd Haynes' films, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for Haynes' Carol. Other notable films scores include the Spike Jonze films Being John Malkovich, Adaptationand Where the Wild Things Are, David O. Russell's Three Kings, Olive Kitteridge, and Anomalisa...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth18 November 1955
CountryUnited States of America
Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.
I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
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.
John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
I like business and personal life to be distinct.
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
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.
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
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.
The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.