Joel Coen

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

I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.

— Joel Coen

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

— Joel Coen

Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine…

— Joel Coen

And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go…

— Joel Coen

Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to…

— Joel Coen

When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of…

— Joel Coen

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse…

— Joel Coen

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.

— Joel Coen

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all…

— Joel Coen

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…

— Joel Coen

People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint.

— Joel Coen

These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.

— Joel Coen

It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and…

— Joel Coen

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind…

— Joel Coen

We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to…

— Joel Coen

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.

— Joel Coen

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms…

— Joel Coen

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?

— Joel Coen

I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic…

— Joel Coen

“Actions always have consequences!”

— Joel Coen

We create monsters and then we can't control them.

— Joel Coen

I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier.

— Joel Coen

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is…

— Joel Coen

We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on…

— Joel Coen