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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.