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Born: 1954-11-29
Profession: Director
Nation: American
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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.

Tags: Both, Sometimes, Story


Tags: Actor, Again, Happen

The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.

Tags: Big, Point, Stars

Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say.

Tags: Actually, Listen, Movie

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

Tags: Car, Perfect, Simple

We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.

Tags: Free, Movies, Wanted


Tags: Movie, Themselves, Wanted

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.

Tags: Job, Writing, Yourself

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.

Tags: Love, Sense, Weird

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.

Tags: Character, Possible, Whole


Tags: Characters, Funny, Sometimes

People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint.

Tags: Interested, Last, Work

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?

Tags: Character, Characters, Fun


Tags: Means, Three, Written

I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out.

Tags: Beat, Fact, System

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

Tags: Disney, Easier, Happier

I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.

Tags: Guess, Living, Trash


Tags: Excited, Film, Work

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.

Tags: Challenge, Material, Yourself

It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box.

Tags: Almost, Open, Rule

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

Tags: Making, Movies, Real


Tags: Bit, Story, True


Tags: Bit, Movie, Question

These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.

Tags: Bit, Hard, Work

We create monsters and then we can't control them.

Tags: Control, Create, Monsters

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.

Tags: Movie, Rules, Violence

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

Tags: Moral, Morals


Tags: Home, Time, Together


Tags: Growing, Hard, Tell


Tags: Happy, Mean, Work


Tags: Funny, Happen, Hope


Tags: Maybe, Story, True

Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.

Tags: Character, Movie, Stars


Tags: Age, Education, Mother

Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention.

Tags: Leave, Movie, Trying