Ethan Coen

That's interesting: people deriving their identities from their music.

— Ethan Coen

People respond to real problems from the heart.

— Ethan Coen

Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.

— Ethan Coen

That cowboy look - the hat and the bandana - that's not a fashion statement. That clothing is purely practical.

— Ethan Coen

What is striking in Minnesota is the invisible horizon line. On a grey day, when there's snow on the ground, the sky…

— Ethan Coen

Is this business any worse than any other business? It's not especially bad.

— Ethan Coen

It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

— Ethan Coen

You don't have to have a true story to make a true story movie.

— Ethan Coen

'Once Upon a Time in the West' is a great movie.

— Ethan Coen

Mainstream movies used to be more adventurous because people went to them.

— Ethan Coen

We used to watch the muscle movies on Saturday matinees, such as 'Hercules Unchained.' Then we'd go outside and do a remake…

— Ethan Coen

I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he…

— Ethan Coen

“Fuck it, Dude.”

— Ethan Coen

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

— Ethan Coen

You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different…

— Ethan Coen

It's very weird when people you know are in 'Star Wars.'

— Ethan Coen

It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'

— Ethan Coen

It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.

— Ethan Coen

We don't outline, so we don't have prospective tasks to divide up. It's just, we start at the beginning and talk the…

— Ethan Coen

With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.

— Ethan Coen

'I Love You, Man' was kind of funny.

— Ethan Coen

We loved the language in Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country,' which is really about the region, while in 'True Grit' it's more about…

— Ethan Coen

In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards…

— Ethan Coen

Don't bang your head against the wall about what you can't do.

— Ethan Coen

Two heads are better than none.

— Ethan Coen