Joel Coen Quotes

Joel Coen — American Director born on November 29, 1954,

Joel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen, known informally as the Coen Brothers, are American filmmakers. They have directed over 15 films together that are often characterized as being "genre-bending", having covered comedy, crime, the Western, horror, thriller, gangster, drama, romance, adventure, and features of neo-noir... (wikipedia)

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.

People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint.

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

We create monsters and then we can't control them.

Joel Coen Quotes

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