Ethan Coen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.
-- Ethan Coen

#Reality #Everyday #Stuff
It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.
-- Ethan Coen

#Exercise #Actors #Want
You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.
-- Ethan Coen

#Running #Animal #Different
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

#Song #Pieces #Reason
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

#Ambition #Opportunity #Design
I was always interested in movies the way everyone is interested. That is, I liked to go to the movies
-- Ethan Coen

#Way
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

#Hiking #Everyday #Mountain
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
-- Ethan Coen

#Book #Reading #Cutting
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

#Done #Pieces #Might
Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.
-- Ethan Coen

#Writing #Good Day #Kind

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