Ethan Coen Quotes
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.
Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.
The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.
It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.
I was always interested in movies the way everyone is interested. That is, I liked to go to the movies
There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?
When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.
