Jonathan Demme Quotes

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• When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally…
• I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.
• I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming…
• I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.
• I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.
• I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is…
• I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.
• Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.
• A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.
• As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.
• Every film deserves its own unique look.
• I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.
• I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.
• I'm guided by my enthusiasm.
• If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.
• It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.
• As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not…
• Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper…
• 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, has…
• Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical…

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