Jonathan Demme Quotes

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

Jonathan Demme

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ThinkYouWhyRuleShowOther

Baseball is a poorly run business.

Jerry Reinsdorf

BusinessBaseballRunPoorly

I've always been a very active person.

Andie MacDowell

PersonActiveAlwaysBeenVery

People have written about 'Sleep' as if it were some kind of record attempt, but I could just put repeat marks at the end, and it would be 16 hours. It's not about that.

Max Richter

SleepPeopleEndKindRepeatJust

I hope we can see African American characters as the diva, as the villain, and also as the praying mother. We are all of those things. We tended to only be the best friend or the neighbor in everybody's sitcom.

Angela Robinson

FriendMotherHopeBestVillainSee

You want to feel, 'I know that character.'

Jeffrey Tambor

CharacterFeelYouKnowWant

Trust is an amazing commodity. The Afghan people often talk to me about having to develop trust in America, because they believe that we deserted them in 1990 and 1991.

Stanley A. McChrystal

TrustPeopleAmazingMeBelieve

All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a wall of your house, and that they make this incredible thing that I loved.

Sue Monk Kidd

LifeLiveLovedHouseWallWrite

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Rosalynn Carter

FailureGoalsBestDo Your BestWin

There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the night before.

Mike Myers

JoyPeopleNightKnowSecretIdea

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LifeNatureHappyHappy LifeOwn

My mom was a championship pool player.

Drake Bell

MomPoolChampionshipPlayer

Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

Chloe Sevigny

DoingBeenLotLatelyKissingSadly

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