Ability Quote by 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 myself sitting…

— Joel Coen

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

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

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

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

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 over again,…

— 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 that whole…

— Joel Coen

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

— Joel Coen