“Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympat...” — Ethan Coen Quote

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

We've always actually been remarkably commercially successful. Not in terms of making huge amounts of money, which we rarely do, but in terms of not losing money and making modest amounts of money. We're actually strangely consistent in that respect.

Two heads are better than none.

As kids, we did see the Disney movies and the kids' adventure stories of the day.

There is some pleasure in doing a movie and problem solving on a specific movie and getting a movie made, but once they are done, we don't look at them again, much less relate one to another.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.