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" We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it. "
Ethan Coen
Think
Have Fun
Fun
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" Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to. "
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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. "
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" Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes. "
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" The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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Line
" 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? "
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" 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. "
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Had
True
" 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. "
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" We haven't had to defend anything to anybody. "
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Anybody
Had
Defend
" 'I Love You, Man' was kind of funny. "
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" 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. "
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Different
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New York
" 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. "
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Uncle
Believe
Confidence
" You don't have to have a true story to make a true story movie. "
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You
True
Story
" It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser. "
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" It's tough being a Jew. "
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" People respond to real problems from the heart. "
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