Jonathan Demme Quotes
It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.
Quotes to Explore
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.
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Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.
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All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.
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I don't believe in borders, I find them boring. And I don't see any difference between any person.
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The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.
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It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.
