Quotes By Joel Coen

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.

Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed.

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.