Jonathan Demme Quotes
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.
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I started my career as a swimsuit model. My first big break in America was 2007, 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
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In the film work, I love to work mainly from the script and from talking to the directors, so a lot of the music, big portions of the scores that I've made, have been composed before the movies were even shot.
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It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.
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When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.
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That dot is special. That dot is where LIFE lives. And I get it, it's biased of a living organism like me to think that life is important and special, but I don't care! Because stars don't care, galaxies don't care, but people do. Undoubtedly we're something special because, as far as we can tell, we are unique.
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Every film deserves its own unique look.
