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Ethan Coen quotes

American Director September 21, 1957

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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. Ethan Coen
The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first. Ethan Coen
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. Ethan Coen
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
Ethan Coen quote: "Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies...."
Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there. Ethan 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. Ethan Coen
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? Ethan 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. Ethan Coen
When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do. Ethan Coen
Well, ain't it a small world, spiritually speaking? Pete and Delmar just been baptized and saved. I guess I'm the only one that remains unaffiliated. Ethan Coen
Ethan Coen quote: "These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit,..."
These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one. Ethan Coen
Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say. Ethan Coen
Ethan Coen quote: "It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human..."
It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart. Ethan Coen
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. Ethan Coen
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. Ethan Coen

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