Category - Joel Coen

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Joel Coen

Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we’re groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don’t think how that’s combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed.

– Joel Coen

Joel Coen

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.

– Joel Coen

Joel Coen

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.

– Joel Coen

Joel Coen

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.

– Joel Coen

Joel Coen

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

– Joel Coen

Joel Coen

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.

– Joel Coen

Joel Coen

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

– Joel Coen

Joel Coen

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.

– Joel Coen

Joel Coen

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

– Joel Coen

Joel Coen

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

– Joel Coen

Joel Coen

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.

– Joel Coen

Joel Coen

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

– Joel Coen

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