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There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.

~Ethan Canin

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Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

~Ethan Canin

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The only successful way to write, and the only one I have found, is to be the character. Give up on trying to control them. Writers always talk about hearing voices. That's what they mean.

~Ethan Canin

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I teach a 14-week semester, and one of the things I do when I have to teach literature is, for the first half hour of the class, I have the students write the beginning of a new story every week. At the end of the semester, even if they have learned nothing about literature, at least they'll have 14 beginnings that they can take with them.

~Ethan Canin

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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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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

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

~Ethan Coen

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There's something strange - not in a bad way - about going back to where you grew up or recreating where you grew up. It's strange and stimulating.

~Ethan Coen

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We loved the language in Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country,' which is really about the region, while in 'True Grit' it's more about period: people did speak more formally and floridly.

~Ethan Coen

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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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