We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple theres a shot from the bumper of a car and its going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment. – Joel Coen
The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if its a true story. – Joel Coen
Ive never really understood that. Its a funny thing people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable. – Joel Coen
Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age. – Joel Coen
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling. – George Gordon, Lord Byron