Joel Coen | "It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box."

"It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box."

Joel Coen, American Director

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"It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box."

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Personal Development

"You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?"

Morals

"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age."

Age

"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."

Community

"If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it."

Challenge

"The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first."

People

"When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer."

Expectation

"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."

Architecture

"It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box."

Box

"The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them."

People

"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."

People

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"You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?"

Morals

"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age."

Age

"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."

Community

"If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it."

Challenge

"The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first."

People

"When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer."

Expectation

"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."

Architecture

"It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box."

Box

"The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them."

People

"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."

People