When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over…

- Ethan Coen

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

- Ethan Coen

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed…

- Ethan Coen

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, a…

- Ethan Coen

Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.

- Ethan Coen

I was always interested in movies the way everyone is interested. That is, I liked to go to the movies

- Ethan Coen

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend les…

- Ethan Coen

It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

- Ethan Coen

You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors.…

- Ethan Coen