Jonathan Demme Quotes

I get creeped out by Francis Bacon's paintings, and I can't say exactly why. They're all really disturbing, and there is an almost nimbus-like quality behind some of his frightening characters and stuff.

Jonathan Demme

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

QualitySayWhyBaconOutGet

Sometimes it's forgotten that players are coming to college to get a degree.

Steve Alford

CollegeSometimesDegreeComingGet

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Stewart Alsop

TimeDeathManSleepDieWrong

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Josh Billings

RichEnjoyPoorDifferenceSuffer

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Joseph Roux

HappinessThinkEvenLackingMakes

I've been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.

Bob Beckel

ManagerInvolvedFiveBeenOnce

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

Anselm Kiefer

WorkArtSometimesUnderstandOut

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

William Stafford

BrokenEverythingOutParachute

The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.

Sylvia Earle

FuturePeopleEnergyEndFishOil

A lot of bands have an unfortunate past; we've dodged a lot of bullets when it comes to that.

Tyler Joseph

PastBulletsBandsLotUnfortunate

Any great, long career has at least one flameout in it.

Tina Brown

GreatLongCareerLong CareerLeast

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Kingsley Amis

JournalismLazinessBecomeChief

Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me.

Kevin Mitnick

I AmMeKnowWantHireWell

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