70 Quotes by Ethan Coen

Sometimes you can just hear the actor in the language.

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.

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

Two heads are better than none.

It's tough being a Jew.

We're not big on taste. And actually, if you don't pander to undue sensitivities, then it ends up usually not being much of a problem.

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.

We used to watch the muscle movies on Saturday matinees, such as 'Hercules Unchained.' Then we'd go outside and do a remake of it.

It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage or ethnicity - or it might not.