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Music films are great, but th...

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.

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I think music is just a wonde...

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.

Jonathan Demme 23 quotes

It's a funny thing with docum...

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.

Jonathan Demme 23 quotes

If you're doing a music film,...

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.

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When you're working on a scri...

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

Jonathan Demme 23 quotes

I've never had a good game pl...

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.

Jonathan Demme 23 quotes

As a kid, a little kid I love...

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

Jonathan Demme 23 quotes

I didn't go to film school so...

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

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I've always followed my enthu...

I've always followed my enthusiasm. Whether the pictures have turned out good or not is one thing - but I've always had a lot of enthusiasm for the project at hand.

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I like seeing the cameras bec...

I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.

Jonathan Demme 23 quotes

When I saw Justin in 'The Soc...

When I saw Justin in 'The Social Network', I became deeply obsessed with the desire to work with him and reached out to Justin. When we met, we talked about a couple of things I was working on that did not come to fruition, but it gave us a meeting.

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I often find myself feeling t...

I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images, the intense collaboration, these incredibly cinematic performances. And for the nights you're filming, a non-player like me gets to feel somehow part of the band.

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I get creeped out by Francis ...

I get creeped out by Francis Bacon's paintings, and I can't say exactly why. They're all really disturbing, and there is an almost nimbus-like quality behind some of his frightening characters and stuff.

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When you're filming, if you c...

When you're filming, if you can't capture the relationships and interplay, that magical thing that transpires between musicians during a performance, then you're not going to have a deeply interesting film. It's vital.

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In early 1983, Gary Goetzman ...

In early 1983, Gary Goetzman and I went to see my favorite band, the Talking Heads, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The show was like seeing a movie just waiting to be filmed.

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I adore film, and I adore mus...

I adore film, and I adore music.

Jonathan Demme 23 quotes

I don't think it's sacrilegio...

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

Jonathan Demme 23 quotes

The excitement of wading into...

The excitement of wading into 'reality' and just finding out what happens - and then the challenge of selecting those things that happened and shaping them in the editing into a narrative that will have appeal and be engaging - is a great, great thrill.

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Documentaries - my God, there...

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 23 quotes

There's that rule: Don't show...

There's that rule: Don't show any of the other cameras. Why? Do you think the viewer doesn't think we filmed this?

Jonathan Demme 23 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....