Jonathan Demme Quotes

By the time I got to 'Silence of the Lambs,' I was madly in love with close-ups because I'm madly in love with actors, and a basic premise of 'Silence of the Lambs' is the story about two people fighting their way into each other's heads.

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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If the point of an activity is to be relaxing, changing that point to money isn't a great idea. Then you have to show up for it differently, and that can take the fun out of it, absolutely. I'm a big fan of turning your hobbies into businesses, but not if it's the hobby you do to relax and unplug.

Jen Sincero

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I'd played with Jon Wurster as a duo just for a lark.

John Darnielle

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Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

Matthew Simpson

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Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

John Updike

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The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day After Tomorrow.' He's crude, stupid, slick, cornball, predictable, laughable, relentless, trivial and, the sum of all these, ridiculous. He's never made a movie you could believe and he still hasn't.

Stephen Hunter

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Pretending that the fashion industry isn't in part based on leather would be quite stupid of me, but at the same time, there is another way of doing things - even outside of leather. I don't use PVC either, for example, because it is harmful.

Stella McCartney

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Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.

Robert Carlyle

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I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

Robert Caro

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I've had my heart broken, and it's the hardest thing. Everyone says, 'Give it time, you'll feel better in the morning.' But you don't. You feel like it's never, ever going to heal - especially during the first few weeks.

Mollie King

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In the back of my mind. I always knew WWE was where I should be and where I would end up. Or where I could end up. Where I deep-down wanted to end up.

Dean Ambrose

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Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.

Dean Kamen

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