Jonathan Demme Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Jonathan Demme quotes and sayings page 3 (80 year old director). These are the last 8 out of 28 quotes we have for him.
“I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.”
“If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.”
“They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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