Joel Coen

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there. ↗

— Joel Coen

#around #i #just #less #making

Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character. ↗

— Joel Coen

#character #different #different thing #kinds #like

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable. ↗

— Joel Coen

#characters #condescending #funny #funny thing #i

People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint. ↗

— Joel Coen

#been #disappoint #interested #last #our

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. ↗

— Joel Coen

#bit #different #little #little bit #story

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them. ↗

— Joel Coen

#again #characters #dialogue #elaborate #fairly

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere. ↗

— Joel Coen

#anywhere #bit #clear #get #little

These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one. ↗

— Joel Coen

#different #down #hard #pin #script

Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say. ↗

— Joel Coen

#actually #director #down #gas #having

We create monsters and then we can't control them. ↗

— Joel Coen

#create #monsters #them #then