Jonathan Demme Quotes

"I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie."
- Jonathan Demme

"I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films."
- Jonathan Demme
(Related: Performance, Sense)

"I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do."
- Jonathan Demme
(Related: Feelings, Care, Chance, Deals, Film)

"I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters."
- Jonathan Demme
(Related: Work, Actors, Responsibility)

"When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!"
- Jonathan Demme
(Related: Silence)

"I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s."
- Jonathan Demme
(Related: London)