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"Have they known scorn like youFive cellars down?"

"Nothing is easy, and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true."

"It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place."

"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast."

"Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?"
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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."

"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."

"I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?"

"I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier."

"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."

"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."

"I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work."
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