Top 74 Burwell Quotes
#1. Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum.
David Toop
#2. Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.
Carter Burwell
#3. All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
Carter Burwell
#4. 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
#5. I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
Carter Burwell
#6. As a global community, we must ensure that legitimate concerns about liability do not hold back the possibility of developing an Ebola vaccine, an essential strategy in our global response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#8. 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.
Carter Burwell
#9. Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#10. A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
Carter Burwell
#11. Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#12. My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#13. 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.
Carter Burwell
#14. There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
Carter Burwell
#15. Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.
Carter Burwell
#16. Can we have a conversation about the substance? That's what I welcome. We're happy to have those conversations if there are places where people think there can be improvements. We want competition in the system, so let's talk about that.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#18. I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
Carter Burwell
#19. One in six people in the U.S. at some point each year don't know where their next meal will come from.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#20. 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.
Carter Burwell
#22. To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#23. When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
Carter Burwell
#24. Certainly it is much easier to think about negotiating and having deals when there is a singular represented point of view. That pretty much is a given.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#25. In an age when stagecraft, gauzy themes, and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership, Bill Clinton as a candidate made it essential to campaigning to take the specifics of governance seriously. Practical solutions were 'in;' ideology was 'out.'
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#27. 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.
Carter Burwell
#28. I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
Carter Burwell
#29. Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#30. There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#31. Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.
Carter Burwell
#32. When you give the American people the tools to make the right choices for themselves, they're going to do that.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#33. No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#34. 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
#35. Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.
Carter Burwell
#37. I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.
Carter Burwell
#38. Medical attention and emotional support can be difficult to obtain for those in need, yet both are essential to nurturing healthy futures year round and especially during the holiday season.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#39. Across the globe, regardless of nationality or financial status, there is a common dream every mother has for her children - for them to live full, healthy and productive lives. As a mother, I share that dream for my children.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#40. I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
Carter Burwell
#42. In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
Carter Burwell
#43. 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.
Carter Burwell
#44. John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
Carter Burwell
#45. 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.
Carter Burwell
#48. Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.
Carter Burwell
#49. 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
#50. How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
Carter Burwell
#51. While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#52. Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
Carter Burwell
#53. 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.
Carter Burwell
#55. I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
Carter Burwell
#56. Banks can't recoup the costs of serving customers who save in small amounts and transact frequently.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#57. 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.
Carter Burwell
#58. 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 between the sound and the image is unique.
Carter Burwell
#59. When nonprofits, companies and consumers work together, we believe we can make long term, positive change for the millions of people in America who struggle with hunger.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#60. Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#61. Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
Carter Burwell
#62. Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe, affordable financial services - most importantly, savings accounts - that have long been out of reach.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#63. Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#64. I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
Carter Burwell
#65. At Walmart, we recognize the need to support the development of our nation's youth.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#66. Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
Carter Burwell
#67. In one month, the Small Business Administration does $1 billion of loans and guarantees for businesses; many of those are women-owned businesses.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#68. In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#69. Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
Carter Burwell
#70. Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#71. Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings and help them build reserves for a rainy day.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#72. 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
#73. The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.
Carter Burwell
#74. I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.
Carter Burwell
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