Top 67 Quotes & Sayings by Jonathan Demme - Page 2

Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.

As a kid, a little kid I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong music. I probably have been guilty of these things over time. But if you use music correctly as a friend of the theme, a friend of the narrative, ou can lend some terrific connective tissue to a film.

Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.