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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 / Filmmaker
People
Singing
Vocabulary
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I'll tell you - what I can tell you is that I know when I saw 'Zodiac' and then again when I saw 'No Country For Old Men,' there was a moment in each of my viewing experiences where I went, 'Dammit, this is scarier than 'Silence Of The Lambs.''
Jonathan Demme / Filmmaker
Lambs
Silence
Experiences
Saw
No Country
Old Men
Viewing
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When I saw Justin in 'The Social Network', I became deeply obsessed with the desire to work with him and reached out to Justin. When we met, we talked about a couple of things I was working on that did not come to fruition, but it gave us a meeting.
Jonathan Demme / Filmmaker
Fruition
Justin
Meeting
Network
Reached
Talked
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The excitement of wading into 'reality' and just finding out what happens - and then the challenge of selecting those things that happened and shaping them in the editing into a narrative that will have appeal and be engaging - is a great, great thrill.
Jonathan Demme / Filmmaker
Engaging
Excitement
Narrative
Thrill
Appeal
Selecting
Shaping
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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 / Filmmaker
Choices
Electric
Electric Guitar
Guitar
Passionate
Acoustic
Contest
Deeply
Luckily
Neil
Neil Young
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I'm all for streaming, and I do think it's thrilling that a gazillion people can see our film the day it drops. On the other hand, I'm a fierce believer of the theatergoing experience. My hope would be that films can be enjoyed in both ways, that there's room for both.
Jonathan Demme / Filmmaker
Believer
Streaming
Thrilling
Both Ways
Drops
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That is - the use of the subjective camera is an idea that's been around in movies for a long, long time. And it's an idea that was seized on very notably by Sam Fuller and by Alfred Hitchcock in two different very kind of - otherwise very different styles of filmmaking.
Jonathan Demme / Filmmaker
Movies
Different Styles
Filmmaking
Hitchcock
Long Time
Subjective
Time Movies Long
Time Use Long
Camera
Fuller
Otherwise
Sam
Seized
Styles
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I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.
Jonathan Demme / Filmmaker
Cameras
Documentaries
Ease
Ideas
Interesting
Seeing
Somebody
Camera
Idea
Hear
Shoot
Incredibly
Making
Pick
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I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images, the intense collaboration, these incredibly cinematic performances. And for the nights you're filming, a non-player like me gets to feel somehow part of the band.
Jonathan Demme / Filmmaker
Cinematic
Collaboration
Collision
Intense
Music Myself Me
Nights
Filming
Images
Purest
Purest Form
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I'm of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to be at least a white male of his generation over the years. Endlessly, he's sung about the stuff that I really care about. He's put into words the feelings that hit you at different transitional moments in life.
Jonathan Demme / Filmmaker
Song
White
Years
Male
Endlessly
Neil
Spoken
Sung
Transitional
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Tak Fujimoto and I, when we started getting enough of a budget where we could afford the right lenses - 'cause we started out doing low-budget pictures together - we started experimenting with this subjective camera thing. And we kind of fell in love with the idea of using that as our close-up.
Jonathan Demme / Filmmaker
Lenses
Subjective
Afford
Budget
Close-Up
Experimenting
Low-Budget
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Especially after the Twin Towers, we're so terrified of 'Arabic' people. And talk about stereotypical negative portrayals of people of certain groups, if you look at the portrayal of Arabic people in Hollywood films, it's just appalling. They've always been just the easiest of targets - along with native Africans and what have you.
Jonathan Demme / Filmmaker
Groups
Hollywood
Native
Negative
Portrayal
Terrified
Towers
Always Look Negative
Look Negative People
African
Appalling
Arabic
Twin
Easiest
Look People Always
Films
Stereotypical
Targets
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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 / Filmmaker
Corporate
Country
Delivery
Documentaries
Headlines
News
Radio
Watches
Tv
Watch
Every Time
Shaped
Newspaper
Second
Subject
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When my generation, those early days of television - I know I've been thinking about this lately - my two flashes of me as a little boy. One, I'm standing in front of the radio freaking out that Nat King Cole's singing 'Lady of Spain', just this stuff coming out of the radio, and Guy Williams singing 'Wild Horses' coming out of the radio.
Jonathan Demme / Filmmaker
My Generation
Spain
Wild Horses
Wild
Early Days
Flashes
Horses
Lady
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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 / Filmmaker
Thinking
Tissues
Use
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