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Jonathan Demme

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

Jonathan Demme

It was so easy for me to see that Anthony would be a superb Dr. Lecter because he had been such an amazing good doctor in ‘The Elephant Man’. He had been as believable a doctor as you can imagine, and he was good.

– Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme

The whole Orion zeitgeist, of treating filmmakers as partners, to me it’s inseparable from the success of ‘Silence of the Lambs’.

– Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme

You want the audience to be in the character’s shoes. The more deeply into the character’s shoes the audience is, the more they’re going to care about what’s going on.

– Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme

There is so much going on in our country and in the world today… We’re getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what’s really the story there? Well, I’m turned on by that kind of stuff.

– Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme

In ‘Heart of Gold’ at one point, there were 23 players on the stage with him. And part of what’s magic about Neil is the way he interacts with the other musicians.

– Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme

Neil Young Heart of Gold’, that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand Ole Opry tradition and Hank Williams.

– Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme

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.

– Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme

All of us who lived outside of New Orleans were horrified and heartbroken by what we saw when Katrina hit, the floods that followed the hurricane that happened.

– Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme

The occupied territories and the movement of settlements – moving people today off of their property and claiming it – is illegal.

– Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme

Especially after the Twin Towers, we’re so terrified of ‘Arabic’ people. And talk about stereotypical negative portrayals of people of certain groups, if you look at the portrayal of Arabic people in Hollywood films, it’s just appalling. They’ve always been just the easiest of targets – along with native Africans and what have you.

– Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme

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.

– Jonathan Demme

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