Jonathan Demme Quotes

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• 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

  Becoming One, Acting, Cinema

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• When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

  Jonathan Demme

  Stories, Pages, Scripts

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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• 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

  Mean, Fiction, Littles

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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• I'm guided by my enthusiasm.

  Jonathan Demme

  Enthusiasm

  "Conversation: Director Jonathan Demme on His New Film and Hero, Carolyn Parker". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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• 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

  Wells, Feels

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 1998.

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

  Jonathan Demme

  Singing, Film, Ifs

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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• 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

  Cutting, Long, Trying

  "Jonathan Demme Discusses 'Journeys' & The Magic Of Neil Young" by Jeff Otto, www.indiewire.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

  Jonathan Demme

  Beats, Performances, Live Performance

  "Jonathan Demme On Future Projects ‘Old Fires,’ ‘Zeitoun’ And ‘This House We Live In’" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. December 29, 2012.

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• It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

  Jonathan Demme

  Funny Things, Want, Documentary Films

  "I'm Carolyn Parker: Filmmaker Interview with Jonathan Demme". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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

  Jonathan Demme

  Character, Responsibility, Actors

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 1998.

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• 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

  Strong, Real, Feelings

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 1998.

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• 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

  Film, Moments, Music Is

  "I'm Carolyn Parker: Filmmaker Interview with Jonathan Demme". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• 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

  Views, Fiction, Documentaries

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2010.

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• I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong music. I probably have been guilty of these things over time. But if you use music correctly as a friend of the theme, a friend of the narrative, ou can lend some terrific connective tissue to a film.

  Jonathan Demme

  Thinking, Use, Tissues

  "Filmmaker Interview". POV Interview, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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

  Jonathan Demme

  School, Done, Film

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

  Jonathan Demme

  Kids, Littles, Love Making

  "Conversation: Director Jonathan Demme on His New Film and Hero, Carolyn Parker". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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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 we had made a movie that had made some money!

  Jonathan Demme

  Silence, Lambs, Quiet

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 1998.

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

  Jonathan Demme

  Three, Abstract, Trilogies

  "Neil Young drives a 1956 Crown Vic back in time in Jonathan Demme’s ‘Neil Young: Journeys’" by Chris Kensler, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.

  Jonathan Demme

  Art, Eye, Proud

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Athlete, People, Challenges

  "Conversation: Director Jonathan Demme on His New Film and Hero, Carolyn Parker". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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

  Jonathan Demme

  Thinking, Remakes, Sacrilegious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Country, Watches, News

  "Conversation: Director Jonathan Demme on His New Film and Hero, Carolyn Parker". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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• 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

  Fiction, Documentaries, Film

  "Jonathan Demme Says 'Zeitoun' Still Need Financing, Talks Adapting Stephen King’s '11/22/63'" by Jeff Otto, www.indiewire.com. June 20, 2012.

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• If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.

  Jonathan Demme

  Vocabulary, People, Singing

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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• I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

  Jonathan Demme

  Independent, Games, Originality

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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