Top 35 Quotes by Joel Coen

About Joel Coen

These are some quotes by American author Joel Coen Director, who was born on November 29, 1954.

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.

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

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

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

Joel Coen

We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.

We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.

Joel Coen

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

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

Joel Coen

Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed.

Joel Coen

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

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

Joel Coen

I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people.

Joel Coen

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.

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

Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention.

Joel Coen

You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people.

You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people.

Joel Coen

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