CATEGORY: BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
INTERVIEW WITH: SCOTT RUDIN, ETHAN COEN, JOEL COEN
FILM: "NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN"
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Q. Hi. You guys did very well tonight. How is Roderick Jaynes taking his loss?
A. We haven't talked to him. We know he's elderly and unhappy, so, probably not well.
Q. Hi. Guys, it's almost always the case that only a single person directs. Could you talk a bit about the dynamic of how you work together? Do you trade off particular chores or what have you? Does one emphasize one thing and one another? How do you work together?
A. No. We don't trade off. We've always done movies the same way, and basically we are both on all sides at all times and whoever is closest that's being asked, answers it. So there's no real division of labor, and it's very collaborative, just like the rest of movie making is, really. It's a collaborative process from top to bottom. So our collaboration is just another example of that.
Q. Joel and Ethan, can you talk a bit about when people talked about you being vibrant to win all these things; how do you personally relate to that and especially from your background as guys who've made interesting films, maybe not Hollywood blockbuster type film how do you relate to the expectation and come here tonight and sit in your seat? Do you get nervous? Anxious? Come on, John.
A. Oh, boy. You know. Probably Joel as well, trying not to think about it. It's kind of God. [Owe|Oh]. [Owe|Oh].
Q. Hi. There's been a lot of talk this year about a lot of best pictures, movies with strong themes from a lot of controversies and I'm wondering, what do you think about it and is this a special year and how do you feel and what do you think you will do?
A. Well, I think it was a special year in respect that I thought that, you know, it's almost like a cliche but all the movies nominated this year were really interesting to me personally and that is not always the case. And I thought all of them to me, personally, I thought were really fantastically good movies. I, in terms of sort of parsing the themes, it's not something we really do amongst ourselves or when we are doing interviews either. We adapted a novel by a great American novelist, Cormac McCarthy, and we are trying to do justice to the novel, but beyond that, we're really ones to sort of parse the themes of the material.
Q. Hi, guys. How gratifying is it to make a film that had some pretty bleak things which has now become such a huge critical success?
A. It's a serious movie, but it has big genre underpinnings, but I think it has a real beating heart, and anything like that is going to be in some respects kind of spiky and challenging, but it has been incredibly satisfying.
Q. Hi, Scott. Congratulations. Scott, you had so many scripts and so many films in consideration for an Oscar, and this is your first time up there accepting yourself. What does it mean to you, and how do you feel about having that award from the Academy?
A. It's amazing. There's nothing like it, and especially with these two guys. I'm incredibly proud, and I think it's the best movie we have been involved with. I loved it from the first minute I saw it, and I think it's a total tribute to Joel and Ethan. So it's thrilling.
Q. That's it. Thank you. Congratulations.
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