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. Jonathan Demme Read Quote
There is so much going on in our country and in the world today… We’re getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what’s really the story there? Well, I’m turned on by that kind of stuff. Jonathan Demme Read Quote
I don’t think it’s sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie. Jonathan Demme Read Quote
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. Jonathan Demme Read Quote
I don’t think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films. Jonathan Demme Read Quote
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. Jonathan Demme Read Quote
I was a sort of rock journalist – whatever that is – in London in the late ’60s. Jonathan Demme Read Quote
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! Jonathan Demme Read Quote
I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn’t an acquired taste. I loved him immediately. Jonathan Demme Read Quote
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 Read Quote
