No Country for Old Men

“So, yeah, No Country for Old Men, Coen brothers. Cormac McCarthy is one of my favorite authors and the Coen brothers are some of my favorite filmmakers, and I had worked with Frances McDormand before and, when this script came out and I was of the right age for it, when I auditioned, I don’t think there’s anything I’d ever wanted more. I gave it my all, and then when I saw it, I was like, “No, that was never my part. Josh Brolin owned that.”...”

“I did see a movie down here that I haven’t watched for a while, but I think is a very solid film, and that’s the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life, because we had fun. I don’t know if Javier had fun. I had fun. And I made Javier have fun. And it started my friendships with both Joel and Ethan Coen... And that’s what No Country for Old Men did for me, as a film lover.”

“I really am excited for the new edition of No Country for Old Men. This film is I think kind of revolutionary for a bunch of reasons, and the way that it took a sense of genre filmmaking and kind of mashed it up – crime thriller, horror almost, psychological drama – and then really brought it to mainstream audiences. I’m very excited for this edition and imagine it looks really beautiful.”

“No Country for Old Men. This movie– I was very lucky I got to watch this movie... Christien, who did my makeup on Renfield, worked on this movie, and he had the script and the storyboards still, and he knew I was a massive fan of this movie, so he brought them in for me. And I got to watch this movie whilst reading the script and looking at the storyboards, which, as a little film geek, that was exciting because I got to see exactly what the Coen brothers were imagining.”

“No Country for Old Men, Coen brothers. Anybody making a contemporary western has to contend with this one. We all know it’s perfect. I have nothing to add.”

“Now we’re going to go to a Coen brothers movie, No Country for Old Men. It blew my mind in a million ways. But what I want to say really... When I saw Raising Arizona in 1987, it’s the first time that I thought to myself, 'Oh, people make movies.'... I wanted to be the Coen brothers. I went to film school at the University of Texas at Austin. I tried to make Coen brothers-type films. I failed at doing that. The Coen brothers are really, really good at being the Coen brothers.”