American - Director | September 21, 1957 -
It's tough being a Jew.
Ethan Coen
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Whenever you're specific with ethnicity or religion, people find reason to take offence.
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There's something strange - not in a bad way - about going back to where you grew up or recreating where you grew up. It's strange and stimulating.
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We loved the language in Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country,' which is really about the region, while in 'True Grit' it's more about period: people did speak more formally and floridly.
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Whatever faith you have, you have that crisis: what am I doing?
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You don't have to have a true story to make a true story movie.
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'Once Upon a Time in the West' is a great movie.
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Midwestern Jews is a different community, is a different thing than New York Jews, L.A. Jews. It's just different. It's the whole Midwestern thing.
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'The Big Lebowski' was something we wrote for Jeff Bridges, and we set it aside for a couple of years because he wasn't available.
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It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'
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Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.
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There is some pleasure in doing a movie and problem solving on a specific movie and getting a movie made, but once they are done, we don't look at them again, much less relate one to another.
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