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
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.
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.
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
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.
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
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.
How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.