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I don't know we have a method. We show up at the office. Is that a method? That's about the extent to which it's been formalized, asystematised. We show up at the office and talk, talk a scene through.

~Ethan Coen

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We don't outline, so we don't have prospective tasks to divide up. It's just, we start at the beginning and talk the first scene through, write it up, proceed to the next.

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That's interesting: people deriving their identities from their music.

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Mainstream movies used to be more adventurous because people went to them.

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It's hard to get away from being old. I still talk about the TV set.

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It's very weird when people you know are in 'Star Wars.'

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Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

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All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do it.

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With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.

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It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage or ethnicity - or it might not.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: September 21st, 1957

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