Coen Brothers Quotes

• Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

  Jacki Weaver

  Brother, Brilliant

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Nobody Knows, Wells, Knows

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• Their way of working [the Coen brothers] is always kept pretty mysterious. I was so curious to see how they make these movies. It was just such a joy - they seem to have so much fun making their movies.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Brother, Fun, Joy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.

  Sam Huntington

  Sweet, Brother, Fun

  "Sam Huntington Exclusive Interview BEING HUMAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 13, 2011.

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• Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

  Monica Raymund

  Dream, Brother, Directors

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• As a director, I do very few takes, because I feel like you hire the right actor and they'll do the job right. And the directors that I've worked with and had the best luck with - Jason and [ Steven] Soderbergh and the Coen brothers - all have been that kind of director.

  George Clooney

  Brother, Jobs, Luck

  "A rare 'Air' for Jason Reitman and George Clooney". Interview with John Horn, articles.latimes.com. January 13, 2010.

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• Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.

  Oscar Isaac

  Brother, Looks, Feels

  "Oscar Isaac Talks INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, Preparing for the Role, Working with the Coen Brothers and T-Bone Burnett, and Balancing Acting and Music". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2013.

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• And they're [Coen brothers] so smart, they're so witty, they have such an extraordinary way of communicating with an audience in a such a clean way - with just a few lines or just a gesture from a character, they say so much.

  Angelina Jolie

  Witty, Brother, Smart

  "Angelina Jolie, Jack O’connell, Garret Hedlund, Miyavi, and Finn Wittrock Talk Unbroken, the Challenging Adaptation, the Coen Brothers, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 24, 2014.

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• The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding. That's what they need to feel when they walk out of the theater. That's your job, to literally put this book on film, you won't make a good movie, you'll do no service to anyone.

  Angelina Jolie

  Brother, Jobs, Book

  "Angelina Jolie, Jack O’Connell, Garret Hedlund, Miyavi, and Finn Wittrock Talk UNBROKEN, the Challenging Adaptation, the Coen Brothers, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 24, 2014.

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• I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.

  Jason Reitman

  Brother, Believe, Cutting

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. December 4, 2009.

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• There are some filmmakers like the Coen brothers that are very precise. They make shooting boards, they do it shot by shot, and they follow every single line in their own script. They make amazing movies, and I admire them so much, but I can't do that. I have no idea how the movie will exactly be. While shooting, I just try to create an accident that I don't control very well - grabbing things from different sources and ideas, and then having a sensation somewhere that it will make sense.

  Pablo Larrain

  Brother, Ideas, Exactly Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always wished there was somebody like the Coen Brothers and they appeared. And so yeah, my favorite role that I've ever done was in The Man Who Wasn't There. That's my very favorite character I've ever played.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Brother, Character, Men

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Everyone that works under the Coen brothers , in every department - makeup, hair, production design, wardrobe, so on and so forth, grip, lighting, tech, everything - they're the best. So to be on a set when you're working with the very best in the industry was a real privilege.

  David Krumholtz

  Brother, Real, Makeup

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That experience [in Hail, Caesar! ] ruined me for all future experiences, because the Coen brothers are the best. They're arguably the greatest of all time, if there is such a thing.

  David Krumholtz

  Brother, Hail, All Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am a big fan of the Coen Brothers; I like their kind of absurd, dark approach.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Brother, Dark, Fans

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't know of an actor that the Coen brothers would come to and say, "Hey, I've got a movie for you to be in, if you want to do it," that would say, "No." That's the truth.

  George Clooney

  Brother, Actors, Want

  "‘Hail, Caesar!’ Cast on the Coen Brothers Process, Slapping George Clooney, and More". collider.com. February 3, 2016.

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• Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.

  Sam Elliott

  Brother, Get Better, Projects

  "Sam Elliott on George Clooney's eyes, Jeff Bridges' dudeness, and working with Ron Swanson". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2013.

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• I don't think every movie should be in 3D. I hope the Coen brothers don't do their next movie in 3D. I don't think they have any plans to.

  Rob Letterman

  Brother, Thinking, Next

  Source: collider.com

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• Anything that is absurd I see as a Coen brothers' influence! The Coen brothers are my favorite people period.

  Josh Brolin

  Brother, People, Influence

  "Josh Brolin Talks GANGSTER SQUAD, Fascination with Gangster Culture, His Character, Working with the Incredible Cast and More During Our Set Visit". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. December 13, 2012.

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• In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres get mixed. They want to categorize things. That's why I love Wes Anderson's films and the Coen Brothers, because you don't know what you're going to get, and very often you get something that you don't expect and that's just what a genre's not supposed to do.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Brother, Hard Times, America

  Interview with Anisse Gross, therumpus.net. August 17, 2012.

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• The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, too.

  Molly Quinn

  Brother, People, Made

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

  Jacki Weaver

  Brother, Crazy, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Brother, Directors, Care

  "Cannes Interview: ‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.

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• I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.

  Andrew Dominik

  Brother, People, Guy

  "Cannes: Andrew Dominik On The Violence, Politics & Look Of ‘Killing Them Softly’ With Brad Pitt". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.indiewire.com. May 24, 2012.

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• I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

  Zack Snyder

  Country, Brother, Book

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