Ethan Coen - biography

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We haven’t had to defend anything to anybody.”

“We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.”

“We wouldn’t have done it if we didn’t think we could have fun with it.”

Ethan Coen directed the following films:
Raising Arizona (1987)
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Fargo (1996)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
The Ladykillers (2004)
Paris, je t’aime (2006)
Chacun son cinéma (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Burn After Reading (2008)
True Grit (2010)


Ethan Coen contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Crimewave (1985)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Fargo (1996)
The Naked Man (1998)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
The Ladykillers (2004)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Burn After Reading (2008)
True Grit (2010)