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'I Love You, Man' was kind of funny.

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Funny Kind Love Love You Man You I Love I Love You

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What is striking in Minnesota is the invisible horizon line. On a grey day, when there's snow on the ground, the sky and the ground are one tone. Everyone appears to be hanging in mid-air.

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Appears Day Everyone Grey Ground Hanging Horizon Invisible Line Minnesota Sky Snow Striking Tone

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It's tough being a Jew.

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Being Jew Tough

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When you're younger, you kind of assume you'll be fine at whatever. Then you get older, and you're either unsuccessful and you wonder why, or you're successful and you wonder why.

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Topics: Assume Either Fine Get Kind Older Successful Then Unsuccessful Whatever Why Wonder You Younger

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People respond to real problems from the heart.

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Heart People Problems Real Real Problems Respond

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You don't have to have a true story to make a true story movie.

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Topics: Make Movie Story True True Story You

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Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre at all. We didn't talk about John Ford or Sergio Leone, even though we like their films. Really, we were driven only by our enthusiasm for Charles Portis's book.

~Ethan Coen

Topics: About Book Charles Classical Considered Course Driven Enthusiasm Even Film Films Ford Genre Grit Honestly John Like Never Only Our Really Talk Though Thought True Were Western

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Midwestern Jews is a different community, is a different thing than New York Jews, L.A. Jews. It's just different. It's the whole Midwestern thing.

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Community Different Different Thing Jews Just Midwestern New New York Than Thing Whole York

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Two heads are better than none.

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Better Heads None Than Two

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In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards - probably a stupid vulture, and that was frustrating.

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Topics: Even Frustrating Grit Had Pain Standards Stupid Trained True Vulture

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: September 21st, 1957

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