When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do.
Joel Coen

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.
Joel Coen

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

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

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across.
Joel Coen

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.
Joel Coen

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?
Joel Coen

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