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
I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.
Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.
Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.
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.
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
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.
Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.
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.
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.
I just love the sheer mess of New York.
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.