Quotes by Ethan Coen - Page 2

There is some pleasure in doing a movie and problem solving on a specific movie and getting a movie made, but once they are done, we don't look at them again, much less relate one to another.
Ethan Coen / Film Director
Relate
Solving
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I don't know we have a method. We show up at the office. Is that a method? That's about the extent to which it's been formalized, asystematised. We show up at the office and talk, talk a scene through.
Ethan Coen / Film Director
Method
Extent
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Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.
Ethan Coen / Film Director
Opportunity
Design
Ambition
Fortuitous
Opposed
Non-Commercial
Reasons
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Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up.
Ethan Coen / Film Director
Dave
Dylan
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Revival
Scene
Village
Person Know Who
Biggest
Bob Dylan
Folk
Folk Singer
Singer
Van
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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.
Ethan Coen / Film Director
Consistent
Modest
Commercially
Huge Amounts
Rarely
Strangely
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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.
Ethan Coen / Film Director
Productive
Staring
Day Every Day Always
More Or Less
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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.
Ethan Coen / Film Director
Driven
Enthusiasm
Grit
Charles
Classical
Ford
Sergio
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You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.
Ethan Coen / Film Director
Running
Animal
Different Experiences
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