70 Quotes by Ethan Coen

It's hard to get away from being old. I still talk about the TV set.

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

People respond to real problems from the heart.

'Once Upon a Time in the West' is a great movie.

Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.

'The Big Lebowski' was something we wrote for Jeff Bridges, and we set it aside for a couple of years because he wasn't available.

We go to the office every day when we're writing - or supposed to be writing. It's not always productive, and there's a lot of procrastinating, just staring at the wall, like any other writing. But we just make ourselves go to the office every day for more or less the whole day.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

We've always actually been remarkably commercially successful. Not in terms of making huge amounts of money, which we rarely do, but in terms of not losing money and making modest amounts of money. We're actually strangely consistent in that respect.