Quotes Joel Coen

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. ...

Billy Bob and Fran are very well known actors, but aren't th...

I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he manage...

I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had wi...

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

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain ch...

I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything agai...

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; peopl...

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge y...

It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other ...

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

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should ...

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movie...

No, we don't have an obsession with kidnapping. We just foll...

Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bri...

People that have been interested in our work for awhile... t...

Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quit...

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if...

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elabor...

The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they...

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's ...

These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit...

Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director...

We create monsters and then we can't control them....

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want the...