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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The Chippendale's dancers are gay. They're gay. Because there is no such thing as a straight man with visible abdominal muscles. You have to suck cock to get that kind of muscle definition. It doesn't work for women. You know, I tried, OK?
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I've been so fortunate to work with so many successful women who are moms as well.
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During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.
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When I started out, at the CBC in Toronto, there was so little work. It was a different world from what it is now. Now we're blessed with so much production in so many Canadian cities.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.
