Jonathan Demme Quotes

I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.

Jonathan Demme

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• When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Business
  • Lawyer
  • Camera

• I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Hope
  • College

• Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Up
  • America
  • University

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Myself

• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Why
  • Poverty

• I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • True
  • Romantic
  • Pleasure

• Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Long
  • Film
  • Three

• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Environment

• Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • China
  • Egg

• The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Use
  • Tongue
  • Tool

• Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Earth
  • Promise
  • Hell

• I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Truth
  • Right
  • Wrong

• We really were poised to make 'Rumours 2,' and that could've been the beginning of kind of painting yourself into a corner in terms of living up to the labels that were being placed on you as a band.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Up
  • Band
  • Beginning

• One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • American
  • Always

• I love the idea of trying to do the work of old-fashioned novelists of plotting and of really making you curious about what's going to happen next and all that, but also trying to load it up with your weird thoughts and opinions.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla's role in Tokyo, where he's always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again - wouldn't Godzilla become God? It would be called 'Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.'

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • God
  • Movie

• I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.

  

  Jonathan Demme
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