And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there. — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer.… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it. — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again,… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint. — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one. — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize,… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way.… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
