Quotes By Carter Burwell

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

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 think being a little nuts is helpful.

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.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

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.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.