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Jonathan Demme (Film Director)

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

— Jonathan Demme you

I'm guided by my enthusiasm.

— Jonathan Demme

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

— Jonathan Demme good

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.

— Jonathan Demme fiction

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

— Jonathan Demme man

Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?

— Jonathan Demme time

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 been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

— Jonathan Demme fiction

Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant.

— Jonathan Demme people

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 up with something great.

— Jonathan Demme work

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 love

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 a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

— Jonathan Demme men

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 we had made a movie that had made some money!

— Jonathan Demme art

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 of artificial energy by cutting.

— Jonathan Demme time

Every film deserves its own unique look.

— Jonathan Demme unique

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

— Jonathan Demme learning

I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.

— Jonathan Demme work

As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.

— Jonathan Demme love

As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

— Jonathan Demme love

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

— Jonathan Demme men

I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.

— Jonathan Demme love

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

— Jonathan Demme hate

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

— Jonathan Demme music

They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.

— Jonathan Demme war

I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a very popular film. I would hope my enthusiasm could match up with something with that potential.

— Jonathan Demme hope

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 to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

— Jonathan Demme love

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