Blood Simple

“To say that the Coen brothers have never made a better movie than this is not an insult. It is an extraordinary… It just shows you the talent that’s there, and you can see them learning their craft as they make it. So if you want to watch where it all began, then this is the one to start with: Blood Simple.”

“If you haven’t watched the Criterion Collection Blu-ray of Blood Simple’s added additional discussion between Joel, Ethan, and I, I asked Criterion and they found us a telestrator. So I literally can circle things as we’re talking. And what’s great about watching the supplemental, director-approved DVD special edition is Joel and Ethan spend the entire time making fun of me and I spend the entire time making fun of them.”

“Blood Simple. Oh my god, Frances McDormand. If you've not seen this movie, her Performance in this—how old was she when she did this? Also to see something that's not made for an enormous budget but feels big. One of the things that we always use this film as a reference for is there's a wall of photographs in Blood Simple and all the photographs are real 35mm prints. Whenever we make a movie these days we say we've got to take real 35mm photographs to make it feel this real.”

“And then two films that I like a lot. I don't remember when I've seen Blood Simple for the first time but I liked it a lot and I became a fan of these people and it was very funny for me to get that old that I met him later on in Cannes years after watching this film which I can still consider to be very, very strong and very good and I was even in a jury in Cannes when they were having a film which I thought is very funny in closing this kind of circle.”

“Blood Simple is the... The restoration is incredible on Blood Simple.”