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Joel Coen Quotes

American - Director | November 29, 1954 -

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.

You Question Little Something Clear

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

Box Open Rule Almost Like Genre

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

Car Moment Simple Birds Road Want

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

Know Three Got Means Very Weeks

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

Work Down Hard Things Different Pin

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.

People Result Actor Two Over Happen

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

Morals You Moral See Them

When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer.

Job Yourself Writing Expectations

I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier.

Relationship Been Easier Happier Had

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 work.

Work Day Think You Every Day Going

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

Education Father Mother Age Driving

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