Ethan Coen Quotes

"We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it."
-Ethan Coen

"We haven't had to defend anything to anybody."
-Ethan Coen

"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

"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

"Radio actually works better. It helps to reduce the celebrity factor, where people can't get past the actor to separate the parts, especially when you have some actors doing multiple characters. In fact, some people we talked to actually told us that the play worked better for them when they closed their eyes in the theater."
-Ethan Coen

"There's a sort of politeness and a little bit of a distance or reserve that's characteristic of a lot of people in the area that's oddly punctuated by these horrible, heinous crimes that you hear about more frequently than you think."
-Ethan Coen