Really Tying Crime Capers, Queer Comedies and Road Movies Together: Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke Chat 'Drive-Away Dolls'
One half of the Coen brothers has made his first fictional feature without his sibling, teaming up with his long-term editor.
Tricia: "Well, we did come up with Drive-Away Dykes — a friend of mine and I, not Ethan and I. And I went home and I mentioned it to Ethan, and he was like 'that's a great name. We should write that movie'."
On Coming Up with Drive-Away Dolls' Story 
Ethan: "Actually, it was just because me and Trish worked on a documentary together — we made a documentary movie about Jerry Lee Lewis — and we just enjoyed working together.
On How the Film Finally Come to Fruition 
Ethan: "It was not the case that we worked on it over the years. We wrote it and then forgot about it for many years. And when we did come back, we did rewrite it."
On How Drive-Away Dolls' Screenplay Evolved
Ethan: "They both came in, and when each of them came in, we said 'okay, that's the person'."
On Casting Margaret and Geraldine
Ethan: "Weirdly, well, same and different. Weirdly the same because I made it with Tricia — and Trish isn't titularly the co-director, but she is in fact. I mean, we made the movie together."
On Ethan Directing His First Narrative Feature 
Ethan: "It just seems that kind of thing is promising story fodder. You know what I mean? It's what Trish was talking about —a drive-away, you go 'okay, what could make that story go? Okay, there's something in the car they don't know about."
On Making a Movie That Feels Like a Coen Movie 
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