American - Director | February 22, 1944 - April 26, 2017
I was a Talking Heads fan from the very beginning.
Jonathan Demme
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Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.
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The occupied territories and the movement of settlements - moving people today off of their property and claiming it - is illegal.
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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.
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If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.
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Every film deserves its own unique look.
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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.
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I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.
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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.
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I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.
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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.
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I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.
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