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.Jonathan Demme
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.
Jack Reynor -
Tom Brokaw was never young.
Adam McKay -
I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
Daniel Barber -
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.
Sam Harris -
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney -
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
Barry O'Farrell
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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.
Walter Kirn -
What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
Zendaya -
Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
Maelle Gavet -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
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.
Edan Lepucki -
I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
Octavia Spencer
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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.
Eddie Albert -
I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
Larry David -
It takes one person to give you a big chance.
Patricia Velasquez -
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
Jackie Kennedy -
If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
Ralph Adams Cram
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
Carine Roitfeld -
We're incredibly excited to be launching Communion in America, where not only are there literally thousands of excellent musicians that we want to promote, but it's also a country full of passionate music fans that we want to feel part of the Communion experience. It's a massive deal for us to expand, and we cannot wait to get cracking.
Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons -
'Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.
Dylan McDermott -
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.
Satyajit Ray -
There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
Tadanobu Asano -
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.
Jonathan Demme