December 21, 2007The Art of Collaboration
In an interview in today’s Guardian, Joel and Ethan Coen - speaking about their latest movie, No Country for Old Men - had this to say about their style of collaboration…
Joel: “Ethan once described the way we worked together as: one of us types into the computer while the other holds the spine of the book open flat. That’s why there needs to be two of us - otherwise he’s gotta type one-handed. That’s how you ‘collaborate’ with someone else.” Ethan: “Paperback novels just won’t lie open properly! They flip shut.”
I laughed out loud - it’s both tongue-in-cheek and absolutely true at the same time…
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