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
-
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.
-
I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
-
Tom Brokaw was never young.
-
I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
-
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.
-
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
-
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
-
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.
-
What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
-
Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
-
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
-
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
-
I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
-
It takes one person to give you a big chance.
-
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
-
Preposterous to say that to punish a certain act was not an abridgement of the liberty of doing that act.
-
No one can keep you down but yourself.
-
My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
-
The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.
-
If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying to do the right thing for your family and do the right thing for people you employ - then you can be forgiven quite a lot.
-
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.
