Joel Coen Quotes

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

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• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Passionate

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • School
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Good
  • Body
  • Looks

• If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Past
  • Audience
  • Young

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Culture
  • Without
  • Mythology

• Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Write

• Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • More
  • Where
  • Egypt

• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Goal
  • Defeat
  • Sail

• Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Bad
  • Door
  • Calm

• There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Live
  • Bad

• I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Guy
  • Player
  • Horse

• When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Strategy

• Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Live
  • Identity
  • Seattle

• I felt for a while with the GH appearances, they were kind of using me as a media trick, bringing me on for three or four weeks, saying I was back on the show, but not really writing for me. And then I would be gone. I just didn't like that anymore. I guess it was me putting my foot down.

  

  Genie Francis
  • Writing

• You want to close the income inequality gap in part? Give us better educated kids out of high school. Give us kids that can challenge and succeed in the challenge with technology. You give us those kinds of kids, and watch the needle move.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • War

• For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.

  

  Alex Graves
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Money

• I'm constantly thinking.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • Thinking

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

  

  Joel Coen
  • Challenge