I’d be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with ethan — Joel Daniel Coen
I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you’re very excited by it — Joel Daniel Coen
Barton fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don’t know what that means. — Joel Daniel Coen
And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want — Joel Daniel Coen
If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it. — Joel Daniel Coen
I’ve never really understood that. It’s a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending — Joel Daniel Coen
I guess there’s a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that’s because there — Joel Daniel Coen
I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories — Joel Daniel Coen
I always admired stanley kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. — Joel Daniel Coen
I couldn’t have been happier with the relationship we had with disney, it couldn’t have been easier. — Joel Daniel Coen
Other kinds of movie stars, it’s a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and — Joel Daniel Coen
Maybe our telling of the story wasn’t as clear as it should have been, but I don’t think that’s true. — Joel Daniel Coen
People that have been interested in our work for awhile… those are the last people you want to disappoint. — Joel Daniel Coen
These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one. — Joel Daniel Coen
It’s a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of — Joel Daniel Coen
The question is: where would it get you if something that’s a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? — Joel Daniel Coen
The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren’t really stars yet. — Joel Daniel Coen
The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined — Joel Daniel Coen
Some people come out going, I don’t get it. And I don’t quite know what they’re trying to get — Joel Daniel Coen
Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be — Joel Daniel Coen
We’ve been remarkably lucky in that we’ve been free to make the movies we’ve wanted to make the — Joel Daniel Coen
We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In blood simple there’s a shot — Joel Daniel Coen
We don’t have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. — Joel Daniel Coen
Usually, I don’t want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. — Joel Daniel Coen
When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn’t be asking us to do it, I don’t think — Joel Daniel Coen
You’re doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it’s a specific individual — Joel Daniel Coen
When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy — Joel Daniel Coen