Joel Coen

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart. ↗

— Joel Coen

#o-brother-where-art-thou #art

I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out. ↗

— Joel Coen

#always #beat #fact #figured #had

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it. ↗

— Joel Coen

#challenging #forces #handling #material #you

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it. ↗

— Joel Coen

#background #community #everything #growing #growing up

I guess it beats throwing trash for a living. ↗

— Joel Coen

#guess #i #living #throwing #trash

I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work. ↗

— Joel Coen

#dailies #day #every #every day #excited

I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier. ↗

— Joel Coen

#disney #easier #had #happier #i

It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box. ↗

— Joel Coen

#box #genre #like #open #rule

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across. ↗

— Joel Coen

#been #clear #comes #i #maybe

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means. ↗

— Joel Coen

#got #i #know #means #quickly