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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
