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

- Carter Burwell

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.

- Carter Burwell

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

- Carter Burwell

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

- Carter Burwell

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

- Carter Burwell

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

- Carter Burwell

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…

- Carter Burwell

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

- Carter Burwell

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

- Carter Burwell