I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
In 'Heart of Gold' at one point, there were 23 players on the stage with him. And part of what's magic about… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
When you're filming, if you can't capture the relationships and interplay, that magical thing that transpires between musicians during a performance, then… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
'Neil Young Heart of Gold', that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand Ole Opry tradition and Hank… — 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 of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to be at least a white male of… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images,… — 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
If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. — 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 still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs,… — 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 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
