Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes. Ethan Coen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When the movie’s done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it. Ethan Coen Read Quote
That cowboy look – the hat and the bandana – that’s not a fashion statement. That clothing is purely practical. Ethan Coen Read Quote
With ‘The Big Lebowski,’ we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it’s about L.A. Ethan Coen Read Quote
We don’t outline, so we don’t have prospective tasks to divide up. It’s just, we start at the beginning and talk the first scene through, write it up, proceed to the next. Ethan Coen Read Quote
Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He’s the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music that we knew and liked. Ethan Coen Read Quote
I think some superstars feel they get trapped in their established screen persona over and over again. That’s what they get hired to do. Ethan Coen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
