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Joel Coen

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

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

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"Every problem is a new puzzle to be solved."

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"Sometimes, God's silence is a challenge for us to act."

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"One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed."

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"If you participate in a competition, you have a chance to lose. If you don't participate, you are already a loser."

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"With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain."

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"If you escape from a necessary fight, pray you will live long enough to wait for and deal with the same challenge that must be settled."

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"Trouble will rain on those who are already wet."

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"I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation."

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"There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer."

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"I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more."

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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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"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."
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"I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out."
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"I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people."
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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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"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."
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"You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd."
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"I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable."
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"Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there."
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