Jonathan Demme Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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.

• 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.

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

  Jonathan Demme

  Thinking, Documentaries, Film

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Every film deserves its own unique look.

  Jonathan Demme

  Unique, Looks, Film

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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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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