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'Once Upon a Time in the West' is a great movie.

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Great Great Movie Movie Once Time West

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'The Big Lebowski' was something we wrote for Jeff Bridges, and we set it aside for a couple of years because he wasn't available.

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Aside Available Because Big Bridges Couple He Jeff Set Something Wrote Years

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It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Academy Academy Award Ambition Award Go Grow Grow Up Happens Never Up Weird Win You

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Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Opera Thing Weird Western

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There is some pleasure in doing a movie and problem solving on a specific movie and getting a movie made, but once they are done, we don't look at them again, much less relate one to another.

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Again Another Doing Done Getting Less Look Made Movie Much Once Pleasure Problem Problem Solving Relate Solving Some Specific Them

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We used to watch the muscle movies on Saturday matinees, such as 'Hercules Unchained.' Then we'd go outside and do a remake of it.

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Go Hercules Movies Muscle Outside Remake Saturday Then Used Watch

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Sometimes you can just hear the actor in the language.

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Actor Hear Just Language Sometimes You

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We're not big on taste. And actually, if you don't pander to undue sensitivities, then it ends up usually not being much of a problem.

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Actually Being Big Ends Much Problem Taste Then Up You

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'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Always Beyond Director Drift Goes He Narrative Obvious Owed Roman Something

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We've always actually been remarkably commercially successful. Not in terms of making huge amounts of money, which we rarely do, but in terms of not losing money and making modest amounts of money. We're actually strangely consistent in that respect.

~Ethan Coen

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: September 21st, 1957

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