American - Director | September 21, 1957 -
Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.
Ethan Coen
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All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do it.
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With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.
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It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage or ethnicity - or it might not.
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A writer, by definition, is pathetic.
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We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.
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Oscars just ain't gonna do it for me anymore. I need the Nobel Peace Prize. The Oscars have worn off, man.
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Don't bang your head against the wall about what you can't do.
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As kids, we did see the Disney movies and the kids' adventure stories of the day.
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You don't go around thinking about how characters in a movie, in the stories you make up, relate to people in general.
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It's always tempting to cast someone you enjoy being with. You've got to hang out with these people for a number of months.
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I think some superstars feel they get trapped in their established screen persona over and over again. That's what they get hired to do.
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