We were forced to solve those problems without being able to go to outtakes or trims, and that was really an interesting thing. You have to keep looking for solutions in the footage you actually have. It's weird, Ethan adds. It's like the puzzle of editing brought to some weird ultimate degree. When they went back to watch Blood Simple sixteen years later, the brothers felt only that twinge of nostalgia.
Nobody ever forgets the first time.
My memories are much more vivid of making that movie than of subsequent ones, because the first time you do it, it's all very new and somehow more striking and stimulating in some way. It gets imprinted more strongly, I guess. I can't say anything about the actual film was surprising, even though we had been away from it for so long. Oh, look at what we did, Joel says. The two have never contributed director's commentaries to the digital versions of their films and they never will.