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I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.
Jonathan Demme
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I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.
Jonathan Demme
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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
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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
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I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.
Jonathan Demme
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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
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I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.
Jonathan Demme
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