Ethan Coen Quotes

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

We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it. - Ethan Coen

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

We haven't had to defend anything to anybody. - Ethan Coen

There's a sort of politeness and a little bit of a distance or reserve that's characteristic of a lot of people in the area that's oddly punctuated by these horrible, heinous crimes that you hear about more frequently than you think. - Ethan Coen

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

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities. - Ethan Coen

Radio actually works better. It helps to reduce the celebrity factor, where people can't get past the actor to separate the parts, especially when you have some actors doing multiple characters. In fact, some people we talked to actually told us that the play worked better for them when they closed their eyes in the theater. - Ethan Coen

I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does. - Ethan Coen

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

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