Ethan Coen Quotes

• We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

  Ethan Coen

  Movie, Inspiring, Reality

  Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, William Rodney Allen (2006). “The Coen Brothers: Interviews”, p.129, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.

  Ethan Coen

  Writing, Good Day, Kind

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• Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

  Ethan Coen

  Ambition, Opportunity, Design

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• Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

  Ethan Coen

  Book, Reading, Cutting

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• It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

  Ethan Coen

  Exercise, Want, Actors

  "Joel and Ethan Coen Talk INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, Casting Oscar Isaac, Working with Cats, Shooting on Film, and Working with T-Bone Burnett". Interview, collider.com. December 11, 2013.

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• I was always interested in movies the way everyone is interested. That is, I liked to go to the movies

  Ethan Coen

  Camino

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• La música de montaña... es música convincente por derecho propio, que remite a una época en la que la música formaba parte de la vida cotidiana y no era algo interpretado por celebridades.

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  Hiking, Everyday, Mountain

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• When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.

  Ethan Coen

  Done, Pieces, Might

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. October 14, 2009.

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• There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

  Ethan Coen

  Song, Pieces, Reason Why

  "Joel and Ethan Coen" by Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2009.

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• You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.

  Ethan Coen

  Running, Animal, Different Experiences

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