Ethan Quotes

It was the first time I felt I was making a script I believed in, and that I`d see something onscreen close to what I`d hoped, rather than this vaguely confusing wilderness my jobs had been to this point. It was my first project with quality minds behind it, Jersey Films, Andrew Niccol, and Ethan Hawke, who was a joy to work with. I felt we had a real meeting of the minds. (On making Gattaca)

(Ethan Coen) once described the way we worked together as: one of us types into the computer while the other holds the spine of the book open flat. That`s why there needs to be two of us - otherwise he`s gotta type one-handed. That`s how you "collaborate" with someone else.

(on how her career as an actress began) : ....Joel and Ethan (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) had just finished the script of Raising Arizona (1987), and they asked me to read it and said that they`d written this part for me and would I be interested in doing it? So that was the beginning of my feature film career.

I`d be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I`ve been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it`s interesting to people.

Ethan once described the way we worked together as: one of us types into the computer while the other holds the spine of the book open flat. That`s why there needs to be two of us - otherwise he`s gotta type one-handed. That`s how you `collaborate` with someone else.

Ethan had a nightmare of one day finding me on the set of something like `The Incredible Hulk`, wearing a gold chain and saying, `I`ve got to eat, don`t I?`

(On landing No Country for Old Men) The Coen Brothers didn`t pitch the project to me actually. I had read the book first without knowing that there was a movie being made. My agent actually called me and said they were making "No Country" and explained the script to me and said, "No, no. I read the book." She sent me a couple of scenes and then I said, "I can`t get out of work." I was working with Robert Rodriguez on "Grind House" and Robert and Quentin (Tarantino) helped put me on tape as an audition tape and sent that to the Coen`s. They were smitten with the lighting and not so much for me. So that was a no. It was only through my agent, Michael Cooper, who is my good friend and a great agent. He`s an old time agent; there are few and far between that actually care about their clients. He kept telling Ethan (Coen), `Just meet him. I`m not going to tell you he`s the one but I`m going to tell you to just meet him.` I met them on what I found out later was their last casting call and then I got the part.

Everybody likes him. He always makes me laugh every time we are on the set. He`s always cracking jokes. - on Ethan "Johnny" Phillips