Ethan Coen quotes
Born
September 21, 1957, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Occupation
Screenwriter, director.
Ethan Coen is an American director and screenwriter.
Movies
Burn After Reading (2008)
Fargo (1996)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
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
Don’t bang your head against the wall about what you can’t do.
– Ethan Coen
We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.
– Ethan Coen
Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.
– Ethan Coen
Whatever faith you have, you have that crisis: what am I doing?
– Ethan Coen
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
We wouldn’t have done it if we didn’t think we could have fun with it.
– Ethan Coen
Two heads are better than none.
– Ethan Coen
We haven’t had to defend anything to anybody.
– Ethan Coen
It’s more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.
– Ethan Coen
That cowboy look – the hat and the bandana – that’s not a fashion statement. That clothing is purely practical.
– Ethan Coen
Is this business any worse than any other business? It’s not especially bad.
– Ethan Coen
Whenever you’re specific with ethnicity or religion, people find reason to take offence.
– Ethan Coen
The movie people let us play in the corner of the sandbox and leave us alone. We’re happy here.
– Ethan Coen
All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we’re big on plot because that’s the easy way to do it.
– Ethan Coen
That’s interesting: people deriving their identities from their music.
– Ethan Coen
You don’t have to have a true story to make a true story movie.
– Ethan Coen
People respond to real problems from the heart.
– Ethan Coen
It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, ‘Weird!’
– Ethan Coen