Coen Brother Quotes & Sayings

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like. — Oscar Isaac

All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait. — Vincent De Paul

And they're [Coen brothers] so smart, they're so witty, they have such an extraordinary way of communicating with an audience in a such a clean way - with just a few lines or just a gesture from a character, they say so much. — Angelina Jolie

When I fly, I never check my bags. I bring a carry-on, an eye pillow, noise-canceling headphones, a big pillow and a blanket. — Nina Dobrev

As a director, I do very few takes, because I feel like you hire the right actor and they'll do the job right. And the directors that I've worked with and had the best luck with - Jason and [ Steven] Soderbergh and the Coen brothers - all have been that kind of director. — George Clooney

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it. — Vinny Guadagnino

Anything that is absurd I see as a Coen brothers' influence! The Coen brothers are my favorite people period. — Josh Brolin

Locked in a debate over Israel's alleged vices, they miss the salient truth running through the long history of anti-Semitism: Israel is hated above all for its virtues. — George Gilder

Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimension. — Tariq Al-Hashimi

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face. — Friedrich Schiller

In keeping with his cryptic nature, all your Story Weaver said was 'The horses know where to go.' It's certainly not a military strategy I would use, but I've learned that the south uses its own strategy. And, strangely enough, it works. — Maria V. Snyder

The groves were God's first temples. — William C. Bryant

I can see you being set free, saved, healed, blessed - in the name of Jesus Christ! — T. B. Joshua

Those who murder fame
Kill more than life destroyers. — Richard Savage

The Coen brothers said something that helped me, When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding. That's what they need to feel when they walk out of the theater. That's your job, to literally put this book on film, you won't make a good movie, you'll do no service to anyone. — Angelina Jolie

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart. — Joel Coen

I am a big fan of the Coen Brothers; I like their kind of absurd, dark approach. — Volker Bertelmann

You will never solve problems unless you face them head on. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I don't think every movie should be in 3D. I hope the Coen brothers don't do their next movie in 3D. I don't think they have any plans to. — Rob Letterman

Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1,000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right. — Theresa May

In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres get mixed. They want to categorize things. That's why I love Wes Anderson's films and the Coen Brothers, because you don't know what you're going to get, and very often you get something that you don't expect and that's just what a genre's not supposed to do. — Francis Ford Coppola

I always wished there was somebody like the Coen Brothers and they appeared. And so yeah, my favorite role that I've ever done was in The Man Who Wasn't There. That's my very favorite character I've ever played. — Billy Bob Thornton

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February. — Mark Twain

I don't know of an actor that the Coen brothers would come to and say, "Hey, I've got a movie for you to be in, if you want to do it," that would say, "No." That's the truth. — George Clooney

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good. — Tom Hanks