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Joel Coen

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

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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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"I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago."

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"Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there."

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"If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine."

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"Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness."

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"Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do."

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"I always wanted to do a Disney movie."

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"My kids enjoy the Disney program, Lizzy McGuire."

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"I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride."

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"All the Disney lead male characters always have this kind of John Davidson kind of look to them. They all look like the same guy, and all the females look like the same, and I think the guys are just way too big."

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"But it's a Broadway show, so even if you're Christine in Phantom, you're still a princess. All female leads are princesses whether they're Disney princesses or not."

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"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."
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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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"And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before."
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"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."
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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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"The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere."
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