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"Some people assume the composer's job is to mirror or augment the action taking place onscreen. I prefer to think that my job is to bring out something that's not onscreen.... There's a period in film scoring that people often refer to as the Golden Age -- back in the '30s and '40s, when Erich Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman were doing film music. They're beautiful scores, but they're often telling you what's happening onscreen -- not just while it's happening, but often before it happens. And I really dislike that. I hate having someone tell me what's going to happen so that I don't have the option of experiencing it personally. I think a lot of film scores are added just to comfort the audience and make sure they're not confused at any moment. I object to that; I think that state of confusion is a precious state and it should be respected." -- Carter Burwell, as quoted in an interview in Vue Weekly, published 2004-12-23