Hi, and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and

James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never

know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom, so bear that in mind when you hear

the audio.

If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing podpod at RogerDekens.com.

This episode of the Team Deakin's podcast supported by Company 3, the world's leading post-production

group dedicated to collaborating with both emerging and established filmmakers.

Today we have a composer with us. His credits are far too many to list. Among them are

Blood Simple, Raising Arizona in Bruge, True Grit, I Legend, Carol and the Blindside to

mention just a few. We're very pleased to have Carter Burwell with us today. Thank you, Carter,

for doing this.

I'm glad to be here.

We'd like to start with our normal question, which is how did you get to where you are today?

Did you always know you wanted to do this or did you take another path? How did you get

here?

I certainly did not ever have the idea of doing this. Never occurred to me till it was already

done pretty much.

But I liked film a great deal as a teenager and through college I studied it and studied

animation, actually. I learned how to do animation.

And also around the same age was developing an interest in music, improvising on piano

and continuing doing that, again, also through college. But these were all as avocations.

It wasn't at all what I ever expected I would do as a profession. And out of college I

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