Latest Jonathan Demme Quotes from Interviews

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• Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.

  Jonathan Demme

  Art, Eye, Proud

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

  Jonathan Demme

  Stories, Pages, Scripts

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

• If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.

  Jonathan Demme

  Vocabulary, People, Singing

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

• I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

  Jonathan Demme

  Independent, Games, Originality

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

• I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong music. I probably have been guilty of these things over time. But if you use music correctly as a friend of the theme, a friend of the narrative, ou can lend some terrific connective tissue to a film.

  Jonathan Demme

  Thinking, Use, Tissues

  "Filmmaker Interview". POV Interview, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

• It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

  Jonathan Demme

  Funny Things, Want, Documentary Films

  "I'm Carolyn Parker: Filmmaker Interview with Jonathan Demme". "POV", www.pbs.org.

• Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

  Jonathan Demme

  Film, Moments, Music Is

  "I'm Carolyn Parker: Filmmaker Interview with Jonathan Demme". "POV", www.pbs.org.