Ethan Coen Quotes

#1. My introduction to Woody Allen and to Ethan Coen was at the same time. On Broadway, I starred in a play called 'Relatively Speaking,' which was three one-act comedies, one of which was written by Ethan and one of which was by Woody.

Max Casella

#2. In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever.

Rex Reed

#3. I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence he had the same syndrome, leading me to believe it is genetic.

Ethan Coen

#4. There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

Ethan Coen

#5. We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

Ethan Coen

#6. When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.

Ethan Coen

#7. The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. I love you as a flower loves the sun. I cannot bloom without your touch.

Debasish Mridha

#9. 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.

Joel Coen

#10. It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

Ethan Coen

#11. The thing about those conditions [anxiety and depression] that sucks the worst is that you don't address the root cause, so you never see it coming. What's worse is when you don't even KNOW what the root cause is, you can never fix the problem. So that's what's really scary.

Matty Mullins

#12. Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up.

Ethan Coen

#13. We haven't had to defend anything to anybody.

Ethan Coen

#14. What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.

Jessica Yu

#15. Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.

Joel Hunter

#16. I'm going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#17. For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Mignon McLaughlin

#18. It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.

Ethan Coen

#19. I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does.

Ethan Coen

#20. We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it.

Ethan Coen

#21. Yeah? Well, you know, that's just uh like, your opinion man.
~The Dude~ The Big Lebowski

Joel And Ethan Coen

#22. I was always interested in movies the way everyone is interested. That is, I liked to go to the movies

Ethan Coen

#23. 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

#24. Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

Ethan Coen

#25. I can't believe I'm saying this, but you're perfect for each other! You irritate people, and he smooths things out. You have good mojo, and he only thinks he does. You're broke, and he's rich. You've got those weird feet of yours, and he's got them cute ears.

Kim Harrison

#26. Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.

Ethan Coen

#27. 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

#28. The Notebook ... that's my favorite one. I've read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love.

Kevin Gates