Oscars just ain’t gonna do it for me anymore. I need the Nobel Peace Prize. The Oscars have worn off, man. Ethan Coen Read Quote
You don’t go around thinking about how characters in a movie, in the stories you make up, relate to people in general. Ethan Coen Read Quote
The mountain music… is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities. Ethan Coen Read Quote
In ‘True Grit,’ we had a vulture, a trained vulture… that was a pain and that was – even by vulture standards – probably a stupid vulture, and that was frustrating. Ethan Coen Read Quote
We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality. Ethan Coen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence he had the same syndrome, leading me to believe it is genetic. Ethan Coen Read Quote
What is striking in Minnesota is the invisible horizon line. On a grey day, when there’s snow on the ground, the sky and the ground are one tone. Everyone appears to be hanging in mid-air. Ethan Coen Read Quote
