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" 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

Book

Enthusiasm

Grit

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" We haven't had to defend anything to anybody. "

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" People respond to real problems from the heart. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's tough being a Jew. "

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

" 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. "

" 'I Love You, Man' was kind of funny. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it. "

" Two heads are better than none. "

" It's not that I don't like TV. It's alien to me. I haven't watched a television show in decades. "

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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. "

" When you're younger, you kind of assume you'll be fine at whatever. Then you get older, and you're either unsuccessful and you wonder why, or you're successful and you wonder why. "

" In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards - probably a stupid vulture, and that was frustrating. "

" What is striking in Minnesota is the invisible horizon line. On a grey day, when there's snow on the ground, the sky and the ground are one tone. Everyone appears to be hanging in mid-air. "

" You don't have to have a true story to make a true story movie. "

" 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. "