The Coen brothers are perhaps the most original American filmmakers of our time, with their own unique style and characteristic multi-layered borrowings from the treasury of mass culture. They are usually called “a director with two heads” - after all, it’s no secret to anyone that, no matter how the responsibilities of the director, screenwriter and producer are distributed in the credits, the brothers still create together, both at the table and on the set. After their debut film “Blood Simple,” they were proclaimed the main hope of independent cinema; after the unexpected box office success of the eccentric comedy “Raising Arizona,” Hollywood came to bow to them; their “Miller's Crossing” forever changed the rules of the game in the gangster film genre, “Barton Fink” received three Palme d’Ors at Cannes, “Fargo” received two Oscars, “No Country for Old Men” received four, and “The Big Lebowski” became one of the most iconic films of the last twenty years. The interviews collected in this book cover the work of the famous brothers in full - from the early 1980s, when Joel Coen worked as an assistant editor on Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead, and Ethan defended his thesis on "Two Views of the Late Philosophy of Wittgenstein" , until the fall of 2008, when the Venice Film Festival opened with the Coens' spy tragicomedy Burn After Reading.