Joel Coen Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.”

“People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box.”

“Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.”

“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.”

“We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.”

“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.”