70 Quotes by Ethan Coen

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

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?

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.

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

We don't outline, so we don't have prospective tasks to divide up. It's just, we start at the beginning and talk the first scene through, write it up, proceed to the next.

That cowboy look - the hat and the bandana - that's not a fashion statement. That clothing is purely practical.

There's something strange - not in a bad way - about going back to where you grew up or recreating where you grew up. It's strange and stimulating.

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.

Is this business any worse than any other business? It's not especially bad.