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Ethan Coen
American Director
Born: Sep 21, 1957
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Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do it. Ethan Coen
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It's not that I don't like TV. It's alien to me. I haven't watched a television show in decades. Ethan Coen
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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
More He Stuff Talks Does Than Little Mean Production Actor
We haven't had to defend anything to anybody. Ethan Coen
Had Anybody Anything Defend
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
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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
Music You Song Wrong Like Know Piece Just Either Reasons Why Right
I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence he had the same syndrome, leading me to believe it is genetic. Ethan Coen
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Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up. Ethan Coen
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People respond to real problems from the heart. Ethan Coen
Heart People Problems Respond Real Real Problems
Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He's the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music that we knew and liked. Ethan Coen
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It's tough being a Jew. Ethan Coen
Tough Being Jew
Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre at all. We didn't talk about John Ford or Sergio Leone, even though we like their films. Really, we were driven only by our enthusiasm for Charles Portis's book. Ethan Coen
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Whatever faith you have, you have that crisis: what am I doing? Ethan Coen
Faith You Whatever Crisis Am Doing
'Once Upon a Time in the West' is a great movie. Ethan Coen
Time Great Once Great Movie West Movie
Midwestern Jews is a different community, is a different thing than New York Jews, L.A. Jews. It's just different. It's the whole Midwestern thing. Ethan Coen
Community Jews New Than York Just New York Different Midwestern Whole Different Thing Thing
It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!' Ethan Coen
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Two heads are better than none. Ethan Coen
Better Heads None Than Two
'I Love You, Man' was kind of funny. Ethan Coen
Love Funny You Man Kind Love You
We've always actually been remarkably commercially successful. Not in terms of making huge amounts of money, which we rarely do, but in terms of not losing money and making modest amounts of money. We're actually strangely consistent in that respect. Ethan Coen
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Mainstream movies used to be more adventurous because people went to them. Ethan Coen
People More Mainstream Adventurous Because Movies Them Used
It's very weird when people you know are in 'Star Wars.' Ethan Coen
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Is this business any worse than any other business? It's not especially bad. Ethan Coen
Business Other Worse Bad Than Any
We go to the office every day when we're writing - or supposed to be writing. It's not always productive, and there's a lot of procrastinating, just staring at the wall, like any other writing. But we just make ourselves go to the office every day for more or less the whole day. Ethan Coen
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It's always tempting to cast someone you enjoy being with. You've got to hang out with these people for a number of months. Ethan Coen
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I think some superstars feel they get trapped in their established screen persona over and over again. That's what they get hired to do. Ethan Coen
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