I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it. — 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 point. You experience it in the moment. — 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 Image
I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
