I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
At certain points, I was afraid there was something - a missing chink of skill - that was going to prevent me… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film.… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I've been making films since the '70s and trying to develop that best possible fiction-film style that I feel is the most… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I'm all for streaming, and I do think it's thrilling that a gazillion people can see our film the day it drops.… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
The occupied territories and the movement of settlements - moving people today off of their property and claiming it - is illegal. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share
I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share
I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share
I get creeped out by Francis Bacon's paintings, and I can't say exactly why. They're all really disturbing, and there is an almost nimbus-like… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share
Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share
In early 1983, Gary Goetzman and I went to see my favorite band, the Talking Heads, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share
When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share
Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary,… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share
There is so much going on in our country and in the world today... We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share
I'm of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to be at least a white male of his generation… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share
I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share
