"We've never considered our stuff either homage or spoof. Those are things other people call it, and it's always puzzled me that they do."
— Joel Coen
Weve Never Considered Our Stuff Either
We've never considered our stuff either homage or spoof. Those are things other people call it, and it's always puzzled me that they do.
About this quote
Joel Coen has made this point in various interviews about how critics and audiences categorize the Coen Brothers' work. Films like Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? are often described as pastiches of genre cinema, but Coen insists the primary influences are literary — novels and short stories — rather than earlier films. He finds the homage/spoof label reductive of what are, in his view, original stories.
Source
Interview