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It varies so much from actor to actor. With John Malkovich, you couldn't possibly say less to make him happy.
I think, the way we imagine characters and scenes, and also stories in general, that would prohibit us—and this is a real backward way of approaching your question—from doing a movie like, in a weird kind of a way, Michael Clayton. You know? There's something about that completely naturalistic style within the current understanding of naturalism in Hollywood, you know what I mean, that we just don't truck with for some reason, and I don't fucking know why.
JC: And it goes to, I think, just the way we think about stories and actors, characters, and just scenes. You know?
EC: Right. If an actor tried to, you'd shake the actor and go, "No, you don't understand. It's a story." [Laughs.]
JC: But I say that it's naturalistic only, I think, within Hollywood's current idea of what naturalism is, because there isn't really that. That doesn't exist in the abstract as a pure thing.
Interview: Joel and Ethan Coen
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