"a lot of people told us that fargo was so limited and so focused that it couldn't possibly succeed."- ethan coen
"i don't know that i am [creative]. that's for other people to decide. i guess it beats throwing trash for a living."- joel coen
"i was always interested in movies the way everyone is interested. that is, i liked to go to the movies."- ethan coen
"somebody once asked us about [john] turturro, if we developed a shorthand with him working together over the course of all these movies. and we said, 'it's beyond shorthand. we don't even talk to him!'."- ethan coen
"the criminals in our movies are, generally speaking, knuckleheads, so there is something amusing about them. you know what i mean? their sins can sort of be looked at in an amusing way."- joel coen
