 I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier. |
| People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint. |
| Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across. |
| 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. |
| The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them. |
| Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means. |
| 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. |
| These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one. |
| The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere. |
| You see a moral in them? Do we have morals? |
| 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. |
| We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment. |
| The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. |
| I guess it beats throwing trash for a living. |
| Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say. |
| It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me. |
| 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. |
| We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price. |
| When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer. |
| 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. |
