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- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
We haven't had to defend anything to anybody.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.
- Mountain
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 by celebrities.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence he had the same syndrome, leading me to believe it is genetic.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up.
- Loser
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that I don't like TV. It's alien to me. I haven't watched a television show in decades.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People respond to real problems from the heart.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He's the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music that we knew and liked.
- Jew
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's tough being a Jew.
- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you're specific with ethnicity or religion, people find reason to take offence.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre at all. We didn't talk about John Ford or Sergio Leone, even though we like their films. Really, we were driven only by our enthusiasm for Charles Portis's book.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
That cowboy look - the hat and the bandana - that's not a fashion statement. That clothing is purely practical.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
We loved the language in Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country,' which is really about the region, while in 'True Grit' it's more about period: people did speak more formally and floridly.
- Movie
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Once Upon a Time in the West' is a great movie.
- Different Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Midwestern Jews is a different community, is a different thing than New York Jews, L.A. Jews. It's just different. It's the whole Midwestern thing.
- Bridges
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Big Lebowski' was something we wrote for Jeff Bridges, and we set it aside for a couple of years because he wasn't available.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'
- Nov 07, 2020
Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is striking in Minnesota is the invisible horizon line. On a grey day, when there's snow on the ground, the sky and the ground are one tone. Everyone appears to be hanging in mid-air.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is some pleasure in doing a movie and problem solving on a specific movie and getting a movie made, but once they are done, we don't look at them again, much less relate one to another.
- None
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two heads are better than none.
- Muscle
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to watch the muscle movies on Saturday matinees, such as 'Hercules Unchained.' Then we'd go outside and do a remake of it.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you can just hear the actor in the language.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not big on taste. And actually, if you don't pander to undue sensitivities, then it ends up usually not being much of a problem.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
'I Love You, Man' was kind of funny.
- Commercially
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've always actually been remarkably commercially successful. Not in terms of making huge amounts of money, which we rarely do, but in terms of not losing money and making modest amounts of money. We're actually strangely consistent in that respect.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards - probably a stupid vulture, and that was frustrating.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know we have a method. We show up at the office. Is that a method? That's about the extent to which it's been formalized, asystematised. We show up at the office and talk, talk a scene through.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't outline, so we don't have prospective tasks to divide up. It's just, we start at the beginning and talk the first scene through, write it up, proceed to the next.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very weird when people you know are in 'Star Wars.'
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do it.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage or ethnicity - or it might not.
- Pathetic
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer, by definition, is pathetic.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is this business any worse than any other business? It's not especially bad.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oscars just ain't gonna do it for me anymore. I need the Nobel Peace Prize. The Oscars have worn off, man.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
As kids, we did see the Disney movies and the kids' adventure stories of the day.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't go around thinking about how characters in a movie, in the stories you make up, relate to people in general.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020