"Usually, I don't want to sit down and……" — 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 down and having that much to say."
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35 Quotes by Joel Coen
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- If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.
- People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint.
- I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind…
- I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.
- These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.
- The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they…
- You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?
- And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want…
- Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious…
- Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.
- I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier.
- I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard…
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