Joel Coen Quotes

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? - Joel Coen

I guess it beats throwing trash for a living. - Joel Coen

I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier. - Joel 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. - Joel Coen

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

[Not that the story makes any better sense.] This one... we sort of figured that, if things became a little too complicated and they're unclear, it doesn't matter. I mean ... this is similar to Chandler. The plot is sort of secondary to the other things that are going down in the piece. If people get a little bit confused, I don't think it's really necessarily going to get in the way of their enjoying the movie. - Joel Coen

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