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1. "A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things." ~ Jonathan Demme
2. "As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies." ~ Jonathan Demme
3. "Every film deserves its own unique look." ~ Jonathan Demme
4. "I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie." ~ Jonathan Demme
5. "I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films." ~ Jonathan Demme
6. "I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately." ~ Jonathan Demme
7. "I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s." ~ Jonathan Demme
8. "I'm guided by my enthusiasm." ~ Jonathan Demme
9. "Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing." ~ Jonathan Demme
10. "They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war." ~ Jonathan Demme
11. "As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it." ~ Jonathan Demme
12. "Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?" ~ Jonathan Demme
13. "I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great." ~ Jonathan Demme
14. "I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it." ~ Jonathan Demme
15. "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
16. "I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting." ~ Jonathan Demme
17. "I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go." ~ Jonathan Demme

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