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
Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
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.
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 just love the sheer mess of New York.
If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
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.
Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.
All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
I think being a little nuts is helpful.