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I'm guided by my enthusiasm.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Enthusiasm
Guided
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Every film deserves its own unique look.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Film
Looks
Unique
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Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Beats
Live Performance
Performances
Nothing
Performance
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I was a Talking Heads fan from the very beginning.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Talking Heads
Heads
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I had had no aspirations to be a filmmaker or a writer.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Aspirations
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If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Film
Ifs
Singing
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I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Actors
Character
Responsibility
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I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Journalist
Late
London
Rocks
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As a kid, a little kid I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Kids
Littles
Love Making
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As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Little Kid
Making Movies
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A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Abstract
Notion
Three
Trilogies
Apply
Trilogy
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I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Including
Remakes
Sacrilegious
Thinking
Good Great Think
Great Movie
Remake
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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
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Filmmaker
Done
Film
Film School
School
Screen
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I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Cameras
Visualize
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There's that rule: Don't show any of the other cameras. Why? Do you think the viewer doesn't think we filmed this?
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Cameras
Viewer
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I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Documentaries
Film
Hitchcock
Thinking
Performance
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I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Acquired Taste
Hitting
Remember
Taste
Acquired
Brand
Immediately
Neil
Neil Young
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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
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Filmmaker
Pages
Scripts
Stories
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The whole Orion zeitgeist, of treating filmmakers as partners, to me it's inseparable from the success of 'Silence of the Lambs'.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Inseparable
Lambs
Partners
Silence
Zeitgeist
Filmmakers
Treating
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They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Profit
Appalling
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'Neil Young Heart of Gold', that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand Ole Opry tradition and Hank Williams.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Valentine
Gold
Nashville
Country Music
Music Heart Country
Grand
Hank
Neil
Neil Young
Ole
Opry
Williams
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The occupied territories and the movement of settlements - moving people today off of their property and claiming it - is illegal.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Illegal
Claiming
Occupied
Settlements
Territories
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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
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Filmmaker
Documentaries
Fiction
Point Of View
Views
Compete
Documentary
Enter
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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
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Filmmaker
Artificial
Cutting
Long
Staying
Trying
Time Great Long
Shot
Finding
Pump
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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
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Filmmaker
Film
Moments
Music Is
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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
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Filmmaker
Games
Independent
Originality
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All of us who lived outside of New Orleans were horrified and heartbroken by what we saw when Katrina hit, the floods that followed the hurricane that happened.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Heartbroken
New Orleans
Floods
Followed
Horrified
Hurricane
Orleans
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In 'Heart of Gold' at one point, there were 23 players on the stage with him. And part of what's magic about Neil is the way he interacts with the other musicians.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Gold
Magic
Stage
Musicians
Neil
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I've always followed my enthusiasm. Whether the pictures have turned out good or not is one thing - but I've always had a lot of enthusiasm for the project at hand.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Enthusiasm
Followed
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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
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Filmmaker
Art
Eye
Proud
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I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Blue
Clubs
Note
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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
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Filmmaker
Feels
Wells
Gratifying
The Only Thing
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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
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Filmmaker
Documentaries
Enthusiastic
Fiction
Film
Love Music Doing
Films
Performance
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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
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Filmmaker
Athlete
Challenges
Extraordinary
Green
Navy
People
Seals
Triumphant
Athletes
Extraordinary People
Olympic
Physical
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In early 1983, Gary Goetzman and I went to see my favorite band, the Talking Heads, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The show was like seeing a movie just waiting to be filmed.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Gary
Los Angeles
Talking Heads
Angeles
Bowl
Heads
Los
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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
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Filmmaker
Lambs
Quiet
Relieved
Silence
Commercially
Finally
More Than Anything
Partner
Saxon
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At certain points, I was afraid there was something - a missing chink of skill - that was going to prevent me from having a movie that was financially successful. That frightened me.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Frightened
Missing
Financially
Prevent
Skill
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The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we're an informed citizenry.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Citizenry
Fulfilling
Great Job
Journalism
Subjects
Informed
Profoundly
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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
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Filmmaker
Deals
Feelings
Imaginative
Real
Strong
Amazing Thing
Strong Feelings
Tremendously
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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
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Filmmaker
Enthusiastic
Fiction
Littles
Mean
Documentary
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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
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Filmmaker
Documentary Films
Funny Things
Want
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When we finished 'Stop Making Sense,' we went right to the San Francisco Film Festival for the world premiere, and people swarmed the stage and started dancing before the first song was even finished.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
San Francisco
Festival
Film Festival
Francisco
Premiere
San
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I get creeped out by Francis Bacon's paintings, and I can't say exactly why. They're all really disturbing, and there is an almost nimbus-like quality behind some of his frightening characters and stuff.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Disturbing
Frightening
Bacon
Francis
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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
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Filmmaker
Enthusiasm
Fallen
Analytically
Match
Trap
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It was so easy for me to see that Anthony would be a superb Dr. Lecter because he had been such an amazing good doctor in 'The Elephant Man'. He had been as believable a doctor as you can imagine, and he was good.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Believable
Superb
Dr
Elephant
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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
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Filmmaker
Acting
Artifice
Becoming
Becoming One
Cinema
Involved
Live Music
Shooting
Love Time Music
From Time To Time
Ideally
Purely
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When you're filming, if you can't capture the relationships and interplay, that magical thing that transpires between musicians during a performance, then you're not going to have a deeply interesting film. It's vital.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Capture
Filming
Magical
Vital
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There is so much going on in our country and in the world today... We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there? Well, I'm turned on by that kind of stuff.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Corporate
Delivery
Headlines
Time Today World
Shaped
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I've been making films since the '70s and trying to develop that best possible fiction-film style that I feel is the most expressive. At a certain point, I felt I was winding up making the same film stylistically and I found that boring.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Expressive
Certain Point
Stylistically
Winding
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By the time I got to 'Silence of the Lambs,' I was madly in love with close-ups because I'm madly in love with actors, and a basic premise of 'Silence of the Lambs' is the story about two people fighting their way into each other's heads.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Lambs
Silence
Love Time Fighting
By The Time
Heads
Madly
Premise
Two People
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