#vie

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. ↗

— Frank Stella

#became #because #believed #brokers #doctors

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there. ↗

— Joel Coen

#around #i #just #less #making

Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character. ↗

— Joel Coen

#character #different #different thing #kinds #like

A film is a petrified fountain of thought. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#film #fountain #petrified #thought

Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say. ↗

— Joel Coen

#actually #director #down #gas #having

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

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

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