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Carter Burwell Biography

Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is 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 (2015). He has also scored all the films of director Martin McDonagh with In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Other notable films scores include the Spike Jonze films Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002) and Where the Wild Things Are (2009), David O. Russell's Three Kings (1999), Olive Kitteridge (2014) and Anomalisa (2015).

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The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.

Environmental, Face, Faces, Inspiring, Like, Natural

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

Expect, Help, Helping, Hurt, Tragedy

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

Interest, Awakened, Learning, Music, Improvise

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.

Actually, Good, Helps, May, People, Sleep

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

Distinct, Hygiene, Life, Like, Personal, Personal Life

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

Writing, Directors, Enjoy, Enjoying, Hopefully, Please

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

Bliss, Fun, Ignorance

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

Comedy, Hair, Romantic, Usually

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Death, Gives, Giving, Help, Our Society, Society

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

Death, Sense, Sides, Taste, Views

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

Audience, Comfortable, Make, Trying, Want

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

Brain, Directors, Lost, Same, Shooting, Willing

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

Directors, Would Be, Instruction, Carefully, Execute, Life

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

Film, Generally, Listening, Unless

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.

Genre, Opportunity, Stars, Time, War, Wars

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.

Able, Conducting, Cuffs, Grasp, Missing

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.

Absurd, Cinema, Enjoy, Fact, Facts, Wish

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

Celtic, Gaelic, Music, Scottish, Sorts

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

Clearly, Melody, Music Is, Simple, Usually

I just love the sheer mess of New York.

Mess, New York, Sheer, York

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