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28 quotes by Jonathan Demme

Robert Jonathan Demme (/ˈdɛmi/; born February 22, 1944) is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed films Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense and a trilogy of Neil Young documentary/concert movies. His latest film A Master Builder opened in New...
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I'm guided by my enthusiasm.

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

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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... →

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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... →

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

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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.

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Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

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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... →

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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.... →

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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.... →

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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... →

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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... →

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Every film deserves its own unique look.

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