Joel Daniel Coen Quotes

• Maybe our telling of the story wasn’t as clear as it should have been, but I don’t think that’s true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across.

   

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

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• It’s a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That’s sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn’t happen to me.

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• If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.

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• I’ve never really understood that. It’s a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

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• I’d be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or… you know what I mean? I’ve been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it’s interesting to people.

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• 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.

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• I guess there’s a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that’s because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that’s poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

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• I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.

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• I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it’s hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.

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

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• I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out.

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

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• And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.

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Joel Daniel Coen (34)

Birth:	29th November, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director, Screenwriter

About

Joel Daniel Coen was born in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, United States. He is an American film director and screenwriter. He directed several films include: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, No Country for Old Men (Won- Academy Award for Best Director 2008), Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis, and Hail, Caesar!. He has written several films include: Crimewave, Fargo (Won- Academy Award for Best Screenplay 1997), No Country for Old Men (Won- Academy Award for Best Screenplay- adapted 2008), Gambit, Unbroken, Bridge of Spies, and Suburbicon.

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