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Carter Burwell

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

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Carter Burwell finds mainstream romantic comedies very frustrating and challenging to work with. He implies that creating music for this genre is especially hard for him.

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