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Joel Coen

"We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment."

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"We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment."

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"I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car."

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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."

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"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

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"The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers."

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"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

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"Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president."

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"People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint."
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"It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me."
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"These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one."
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"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."
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