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I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it. ↗

— Joel Coen

#background #community #everything #growing #growing up

I am a Catholic. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#catholic #i #i am

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#am #convinced #i #i am

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#cases #commandments #legal #perhaps #point

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable. ↗

— Joel Coen

#characters #condescending #funny #funny thing #i

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares? ↗

— Joel Coen

#amount #amusing #because #behave #cares

Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention. ↗

— Joel Coen

#befuddled #come #get #going #had

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#disillusionment #having #illusion #moment #moments

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

#anywhere #bit #clear #get #little

When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do. ↗

— Joel Coen

#get #i #into #let us #movie