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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. ↗

— Joel Coen

#any #basis #depict #how #movie

We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price. ↗

— Joel Coen

#free #lucky #made #make #movies

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

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd. ↗

— Joel Coen

#approach #characters #conceiving #creations #even

You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people. ↗

— Joel Coen

#character #class #doing #individual #make

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment. ↗

— William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

#environment #human #human life #ignorance #life

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#i #interpret #invitations #my own #own

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#dead #feel #i #idea #much

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money. ↗

— Catherine Keener

#four #i #lot #maybe #money

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#every #find #man #nothing #successful