All Jonathan Demme Quotes
- 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… Commercially
- I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie. Any
- 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… Coming
- I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films. Documentaries
- I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters. Actor
- 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… Able
- I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s. Inspirational
- Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing. Beats
- A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things. Abstract
- As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies. Kid
- Every film deserves its own unique look. Deserve
- I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen. Film
- I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately. Acquired
- I'm guided by my enthusiasm. Enthusiasm
- If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Film
- 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. Compete
- As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not… Acoustic
- Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper… Corporate
- 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… All
- Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical… Athlete
- 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… Acting
- I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind… Artificial
- I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love… Documentaries
- I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which… Camera
- 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 over… Care