Quotes by Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme

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

Abstract

Three

Trilogies

As a kid, a little kid I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

Kids

Littles

Love Making

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.

Choices

Guitar

Passionate

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?

Country

News

Watches

Every film deserves its own unique look.

Film

Looks

Unique

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.

Fiction

Littles

Mean

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.

Athlete

Challenges

People

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.

Feels

Wells

I didn’t go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Done

Film

School

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

Remakes

Sacrilegious

Thinking

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Abstract

Acting

Actors

Art

Athlete

Beats

Becoming One

Cameras

Challenges

Character

Choices

Cinema

Country

Cutting

Documentaries

Documentary Films

Done

Enthusiasm

Eye

Feelings

Feels

Fiction

Film

Funny Things

Games

Guitar

Hitting

Ideas

Ifs

Independent

Interesting

Kids

Lambs

Late

Littles

Live Performance

London

Long

Looks

Love Making

Mean

Moments

Music Is

News

Originality

Pages

Passionate

People

Performances

Proud

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Quotes by Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme

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

As a kid, a little kid I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

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.

Every film deserves its own unique look.

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.

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.

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.

I didn’t go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

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

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