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"I like Hollywood just the way it is, actually. I don't think I'd change anything. I like that it's out here 3,000 miles from where I live."

— Joel Coen

I Like Hollywood Just The Way

I like Hollywood just the way it is, actually. I don't think I'd change anything. I like that it's out here 3,000 miles from where I live.

— Joel Coen
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Joel Coen made this remark in an interview, reflecting the Coen Brothers' preference for working from their base in New York rather than within the Hollywood studio system. Despite winning the Academy Award for Best Picture for No Country for Old Men (2007) and directing prestige projects for major studios, the brothers have maintained creative and physical distance from the industry's center of gravity.

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Interview

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