Top 42 Quotes by Carter Burwell

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

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

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

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

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

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.