Jonathan Demme Quotes (16 Quotes)

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 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.

One thing that Neil and I talked about from the very beginning was making this movie feel like a dream -- literally a dream concert that takes you back in time and takes place in a dream location.

Seeing Neil Young expressing these lyrics and seeing the emotions that register on his face in his style of presentation is a sublime extra for understanding his music.

People can go on this emotional journey that awaits them if they surrender to the songs.

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!

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

I remember him telling me that he was going to New York for a couple of days. I could've sworn that he told me he was going to a foot doctor.

And then when the song was over I didn't say 'cut.' I thought it would be rude, 'It's Buster Keaton -- this guy knows exactly what size he is in the frame.' That's the filmmaker in Neil.

Each year, Cognac makes its mark with enthusiasm, style and confidence and it's wonderful to be taking part in this year's edition.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

All my life I have been in love with film and music, and this feels like the best opportunity I have ever had to work with a fusion of the two artistic mediums,

That's the only time he'd do it.

I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.

Neil would be singing these songs for the first time ever to an audience that never heard them before. He'd be so communicative under those circumstances.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.