Joel Coen

Director

1954-11-29

Quotes by 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.

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• 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.

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

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• And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.

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