“Here’s a great film: Robert Siodmak’s The Killers. Opening of this film, the first couple scenes are so great, I remember. These killers come into this diner and menace this diner owner. I realized that, watching No Country for Old Men, in the scene where Javier Bardem goes into the gas station with the actor Gene Jones as the proprietor, where he makes him flip the quarter and he doesn’t want to call it, it’s the exact same dynamic. They must have had that in mind. But, you know, steal from...”
