Jonathan Demme Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 22, 1944 - April 26, 2017

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The best moderators are the moderators who are essentially invisible. A moderator who is there to be seen and heard and to be talked about either, 'oh, God, what a great question,' or, 'oh, God, what a lousy question,' that to me is a failed moderator.

Jim Lehrer

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Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

Jodie Foster

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I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.

Jerry Seinfeld

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But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

Steve Wozniak

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The thing about racing that appeals to me is your destiny is in your own hands at that moment.

Robert Carradine

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I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there to be a painter. And I sketched so well that, a year later, I was sent to Slade School of Fine Art, one of the great art schools.

Roger Rees

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Jason Statham is one of my favorites. I've watched basically every single one of his action movies, and they're all creative.

Rob Gronkowski

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Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

Roman Jakobson

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Probably the worst pickup line is no pickup line. I mean, at the end of the day, what is the worst that could happen?

Dawn Olivieri

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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare

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The world has always been uncertain. This is the nature of the world.

Pierre Nanterme

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I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or characterization to another.

Suzanne Farrell

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