Coen Brothers Movie Quotes

#1. When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute they write a word, they know how it will look on-screen. They are very purposeful, with no kind of mistakes.

Eric Fellner

#2. Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.

Oscar Isaac

#3. Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

Severo Ochoa

#4. I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

Spike Jonze

#5. Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.

Emmett Tyrrell

#6. We don't have to fix anything.

Mitch Hedberg

#7. [Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.

Ernest Hollings

#8. That's what being Jewish is: summoning the means to question who you are and how you have behaved. Have you remained alight in the darkness of cruel wishes,..? Have you forgiven? Have you lived up to the standards of your one and only heart?

Emily Franklin

#9. I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.

Andrew Dominik

#10. And you had to do that in a thunderstorm pissing down like a camel?

Poppet

#11. I don't know of an actor that the Coen brothers would come to and say, "Hey, I've got a movie for you to be in, if you want to do it," that would say, "No." That's the truth.

George Clooney

#12. We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

Edward Abbey

#13. If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.

N.K. Jemisin

#14. I don't think every movie should be in 3D. I hope the Coen brothers don't do their next movie in 3D. I don't think they have any plans to.

Rob Letterman