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The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.

~Joel Coen

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It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box.

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We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

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Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.

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These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.

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The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.

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You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?

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When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer.

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I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier.

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We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: November 29th, 1954

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