American - Director | September 21, 1957 -
People are always curious about brothers working together.
Ethan Coen
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I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does.
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Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre at all. We didn't talk about John Ford or Sergio Leone, even though we like their films. Really, we were driven only by our enthusiasm for Charles Portis's book.
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That cowboy look - the hat and the bandana - that's not a fashion statement. That clothing is purely practical.
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When you're younger, you kind of assume you'll be fine at whatever. Then you get older, and you're either unsuccessful and you wonder why, or you're successful and you wonder why.
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What is striking in Minnesota is the invisible horizon line. On a grey day, when there's snow on the ground, the sky and the ground are one tone. Everyone appears to be hanging in mid-air.
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We go to the office every day when we're writing - or supposed to be writing. It's not always productive, and there's a lot of procrastinating, just staring at the wall, like any other writing. But we just make ourselves go to the office every day for more or less the whole day.
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In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards - probably a stupid vulture, and that was frustrating.
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Is this business any worse than any other business? It's not especially bad.
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It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.
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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 first scene through, write it up, proceed to the next.
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We haven't had to defend anything to anybody.
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