There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work.

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song

The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

I'm definitely someone that's private. I've never been interested in celebrity.

To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities.

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

I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

At war, there's no right or wrong.Winner's right while loser's wrong.

We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.

It's very hard to write humor.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I'm not leading them to some false God or something like that.

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?

I think every guy and girl would love to get to play Superman, at some point in their life.

He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.