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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
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I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.
- Jonathan Demme
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#Good
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#Remake
#Think
I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.
- Jonathan Demme
#Cinema
#Live
#Love
#Music
#Time
A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.
- Jonathan Demme
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#Almost
#Apply
#Things
#Three
Every film deserves its own unique look.
- Jonathan Demme
#Every
#Film
#Look
#Own
#Unique
I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.
- Jonathan Demme
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#Performance
#Sense
#Stop
#Think
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.
- Jonathan Demme
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#Seeing
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#Talking
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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.
- Jonathan Demme
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#Editing
#Great
#Reality
#Will
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.
- Jonathan Demme
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#Boring
#Feel
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#Trying
I adore film, and I adore music.
- Jonathan Demme
#Adore
#Film
#Music
Tak Fujimoto and I, when we started getting enough of a budget where we could afford the right lenses - 'cause we started out doing low-budget pictures together - we started experimenting with this subjective camera thing. And we kind of fell in love with the idea of using that as our close-up.
- Jonathan Demme
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#Enough
#Love
#Right
#Together
It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.
- Jonathan Demme
#Experience
#Point Of View
#Rich
#View
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.
- Jonathan Demme
#Blue
#Find
#Jazz
#Music
#Travel
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
#Fighting
#Love
#Silence
#Time
#Way
Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.
- Jonathan Demme
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#Live
#Nothing
#Performance
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