Carter Burwell Quotes

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever.

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

I don't think, because I'm going to school for something else, that I will stop being an actress.

I'm a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into the would-be business of making movies.

I had taken a bit of a sabbatical because I was producing and directing films. But acting has always been my passion and it is something that I will continue to do.

I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.

I don't have to forsake my career as a musician. I know how to write songs - that's not going to leave me. But I think it's good to explore some other avenues.

Acting was always there in my mind, but I never tried too hard to take it up. I had to pay my bills, so I did whatever came my way. Music happened first, so I took it up quite passionately.

I've been an actor for 30 years. I'm not going to run from a great theater production to do two days on an HBO series or something.

I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.

I thought I wanted to work in music production for a while. I worked for a film producer. Then I was given the opportunity to open a bar in New York. So, I was like, 'You know what, I'm going to give it a shot.'

I don't know about others, but I want to work in India, America, Iran, Europe, and Russia - everywhere. I am a sucker for good script; I'll go wherever it'll take me.

When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.

After two years in TV, I realized that I need a break from 9 to 5 routine work. I just wanted to explore and get back to movies for a while.

I just love the process of filmmaking.

I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

It's always nice to have people love the things that you do. But it's a lot of hard work, and people are always passionate, if it's family fare or a drama, it's the same amount of work and people invest everything into that, and when it doesn't come out the way you want it to, of course it's hurtful.

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!