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We haven't had to defend anything to anybody.

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?

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All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do it.

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Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

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A writer, by definition, is pathetic.

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I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does.

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We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

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Whenever you're specific with ethnicity or religion, people find reason to take offence.

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Is this business any worse than any other business? It's not especially bad.

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Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He's the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music that we knew and liked.

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Mainstream movies used to be more adventurous because people went to them.

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We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it.

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It's very weird when people you know are in 'Star Wars.'

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Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.

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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.

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Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

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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.

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We haven't had to defend anything to anybody.

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What is striking in Minnesota is the invisible horizon line. On a grey day, when there's snow on the ground, the sky and the ground are one tone. Everyone appears to be hanging in mid-air.

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It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage or ethnicity - or it might not.

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As kids, we did see the Disney movies and the kids' adventure stories of the day.

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Midwestern Jews is a different community, is a different thing than New York Jews, L.A. Jews. It's just different. It's the whole Midwestern thing.

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We've always actually been remarkably commercially successful. Not in terms of making huge amounts of money, which we rarely do, but in terms of not losing money and making modest amounts of money. We're actually strangely consistent in that respect.

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'Once Upon a Time in the West' is a great movie.

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It's tough being a Jew.

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That cowboy look - the hat and the bandana - that's not a fashion statement. That clothing is purely practical.

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Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre at all. We didn't talk about John Ford or Sergio Leone, even though we like their films. Really, we were driven only by our enthusiasm for Charles Portis's book.

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Two heads are better than none.

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That's interesting: people deriving their identities from their music.

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People are always curious about brothers working together.

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We go to the office every day when we're writing - or supposed to be writing. It's not always productive, and there's a lot of procrastinating, just staring at the wall, like any other writing. But we just make ourselves go to the office every day for more or less the whole day.

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Oscars just ain't gonna do it for me anymore. I need the Nobel Peace Prize. The Oscars have worn off, man.

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It's not that I don't like TV. It's alien to me. I haven't watched a television show in decades.

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Don't bang your head against the wall about what you can't do.

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I don't know we have a method. We show up at the office. Is that a method? That's about the extent to which it's been formalized, asystematised. We show up at the office and talk, talk a scene through.

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