Jonathan Demme Quotes Page 2 - BrainyQuote

American - Director February 22, 1944 - April 26, 2017

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.

Hope Never Trying Something

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

Music You Singing Doing

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.

Life You Words Care

I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.

Time Long Great Long Time

They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.

War Through Just Profit

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

You Three Things Pretty

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.

Best Style Feel Boring

When you're filming, if you can't capture the relationships and interplay, that magical thing that transpires between musicians during a performance, then you're not going to have a deeply interesting film. It's vital.

You Performance Musicians Capture

I'm all for streaming, and I do think it's thrilling that a gazillion people can see our film the day it drops. On the other hand, I'm a fierce believer of the theatergoing experience. My hope would be that films can be enjoyed in both ways, that there's room for both.

Hope Day Experience People

I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.

Music Travel Blue See

I'll tell you - what I can tell you is that I know when I saw 'Zodiac' and then again when I saw 'No Country For Old Men,' there was a moment in each of my viewing experiences where I went, 'Dammit, this is scarier than 'Silence Of The Lambs.''

Silence You Moment Men

That is - the use of the subjective camera is an idea that's been around in movies for a long, long time. And it's an idea that was seized on very notably by Sam Fuller and by Alfred Hitchcock in two different very kind of - otherwise very different styles of filmmaking.

Time Long Long Time Camera

In early 1983, Gary Goetzman and I went to see my favorite band, the Talking Heads, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The show was like seeing a movie just waiting to be filmed.

Waiting Talking See Band

I was a Talking Heads fan from the very beginning.

Beginning Talking Fan Very

I adore film, and I adore music.

Music Film Adore

I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images, the intense collaboration, these incredibly cinematic performances. And for the nights you're filming, a non-player like me gets to feel somehow part of the band.

Myself Music Me You

I had had no aspirations to be a filmmaker or a writer.

Aspirations Filmmaker Writer Had

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.

Good Pictures Enthusiasm Always

The excitement of wading into 'reality' and just finding out what happens - and then the challenge of selecting those things that happened and shaping them in the editing into a narrative that will have appeal and be engaging - is a great, great thrill.

Great Challenge Reality Editing

At certain points, I was afraid there was something - a missing chink of skill - that was going to prevent me from having a movie that was financially successful. That frightened me.

Me Skill Missing Something

When I saw Justin in 'The Social Network', I became deeply obsessed with the desire to work with him and reached out to Justin. When we met, we talked about a couple of things I was working on that did not come to fruition, but it gave us a meeting.

Work Meeting Desire Things

I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.

Music People Like Seeing

There's that rule: Don't show any of the other cameras. Why? Do you think the viewer doesn't think we filmed this?

You Think Why Show

The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we're an informed citizenry.

Democracy Great Job Media

Especially after the Twin Towers, we're so terrified of 'Arabic' people. And talk about stereotypical negative portrayals of people of certain groups, if you look at the portrayal of Arabic people in Hollywood films, it's just appalling. They've always been just the easiest of targets - along with native Africans and what have you.

You People Look Negative

The occupied territories and the movement of settlements - moving people today off of their property and claiming it - is illegal.

Today People Moving Property

Loading...

Load more quotes

Related Authors

Tim Burton
Quotes

Woody Allen
Quotes

George Lucas
Quotes

Martin Scorsese
Quotes

Steven Spielberg
Quotes

David Lynch
Quotes

Quentin Tarantino
Quotes

Spike Lee
Quotes

BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote Of The Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

BQ on Instagram

Apps

iPhone/iPad app

Quote Of The Day Feeds

Javascript and RSS feeds

WordPress plugin

Quote of the Day Email

About

Copyright © 2001 - 2019 BrainyQuote