Jonathan Demme Quotes
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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You have to assign specific tasks to everybody so you don't bump into each other and start arguing about silliness.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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I'm not saying that experiencing loss is why I can cope with darker worlds - I'm not saying that for a second - but I think it opens up a side of you in terms of work that wouldn't be as accessible had that stuff not happened.
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I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.
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And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.
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I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.
