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If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it. — Joel Coen

Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project. — Sam Elliott

I feel like if you see five films not knowing who made them, you know which one is the Coen Brothers. — Hailee Steinfeld

I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that. — Jacki Weaver

Anything that is absurd I see as a Coen brothers' influence! The Coen brothers are my favorite people period. — Josh Brolin

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. — Joel Coen

The Coen brothers are amazing; they're special. — Domhnall Gleeson

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

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. — Joel Coen

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. — Joel Coen

I guess it beats throwing trash for a living. — Joel Coen

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

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means. — Joel Coen

I am a big fan of the Coen Brothers; I like their kind of absurd, dark approach. — Volker Bertelmann

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. — Joel Coen

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. — Joel Coen

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

I don't think every movie should be in 3D. I hope the Coen brothers don't do their next movie in 3D. I don't think they have any plans to. — Rob Letterman

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

I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier. — Joel Coen

In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever. — Rex Reed

We haven't had to defend anything to anybody. — Ethan Coen

Actions always have consequences! — Joel Coen

We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it. — Ethan Coen

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

Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films. — Carter Burwell

These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one. — Joel Coen

What doesn't draw you into a Coen Bros. movie. It's amazing. I can't believe it! They're the Coen Bros. It's ridiculous. — Carey Mulligan

It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise. — Ethan Coen

Yeah? Well, you know, that's just uh like, your opinion man.
~The Dude~ The Big Lebowski — Joel And Ethan Coen

Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes. — Ethan Coen

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

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like. — Oscar Isaac

It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser. — Ethan Coen

I was always interested in movies the way everyone is interested. That is, I liked to go to the movies — Ethan Coen

Well, ain't it a small world, spiritually speaking? Pete and Delmar just been baptized and saved. I guess I'm the only one that remains unaffiliated. — Joel Coen

The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box. — Drew Goddard

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant. — Jacki Weaver

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart. — Joel Coen

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick. — Kevin McCloud

Nobody knows anybody. Not that well. — Gabriel Byrne

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine. — Monica Raymund

I worked with the Coen brothers, which had been a dream of mine. — Domhnall Gleeson

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

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals? — Joel Coen

I have a big affinity for the Coen Brothers. — Scott Rudin