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A conversation between Cormac McCarthy and Joel and Ethan Coen

A conversation between Cormac McCarthy and the Coen Brothers about No Country for Old Men

If you were going to play the parlor game of arranging the most interesting, improbable, imaginary conversation among American entertainers, you could do worse than the one that took place in midtown Manhattan earlier this month. The participants were the filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, known for smart, stylish and slightly silly movies like Fargo and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and the novelist Cormac McCarthy, who won the National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road. If it were a reality show it would be called Eccentric Genius Island.

A gem of a conversation covering everything from failed concepts, movie rip offs, process, emotional highs and lows and the dog chase.

Joel Coen

when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away

McCarthy wrote the book, the Coen Brothers made the movie and I can’t wait to see it.