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

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"It is always harder to climb the mountain. One must find strength of hope within the depths of heart to move onward."

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"We are the mountains we must cross."

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

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"It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist."

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"The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn't finished yet - and which won't be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003!"

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"I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles."

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"When you live in contrary to the demand of life, life doesn't work for you. Life rather works against you."

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"The greater your destiny the greater your troubles."

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"Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge."

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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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"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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"We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis."
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"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?"
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"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."
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"Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across."
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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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"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."
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"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."
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"I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier."
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