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35 quotes by Joel Coen

Joel David Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957), known informally as the Coen brothers, are American film directors, screenwriters, producers, and editors. Their films include Blood Simple (1984), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), No Country for Old Men (2007), Burn After Reading (2008), A Serious Man (2009), True Grit (2010), and Inside Llewyn...
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We create monsters and then we can't control them.

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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... →

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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... →

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I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the... →

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

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

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

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I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.

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I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to... →

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

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

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Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.

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It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box.

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