Joel Coen Quotes

It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain.

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

There was a point in school when I was, like, thirteen, that I didn't feel comfortable at all.

I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.

It is quite unsettling looking into someone's eyes, especially when you aren't used to it.

When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.

Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.

I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.

Campaigning is uncomfortable when you start.

We confused the warriors with the war.

Lots of people throw around phrases of 'no-fly zone,' and they talk about it as though it's just a game - a video game or something. Some people who throw that line out have no idea what they're talking about.

I get it that some people just don't know what to make of me.

I don't feel like I make sense in the world. I don't feel like I look right. I don't feel like I act right or do right. It's very frustrating to me that I just walk around with this all the time.

I have to slow down for some people. In Louisiana, people didn't have a clue what I was talking about. I remember seeing people glaze over. Seeing the moment where they've just completely lost all... They just wait for me to stop talking and then say, 'Yeah.'

There have been occasions when some people have taken me very seriously.

Dead silence is so much more foreign to me than people screaming at me, good or bad.

Henry: Well I'm sorry about your head though, but I thought you were one of them. Indiana: Dad, they come in through the doors.

I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.