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.
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… - Jonathan Demme
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…
- Jonathan Demme
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. … - Jonathan Demme
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. …
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
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.
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 … - Jonathan Demme
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 …
If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. - Jonathan Demme
If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.
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 cuttin… - Jonathan Demme
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 cuttin…
Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing. - Jonathan Demme
Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.
I'm guided by my enthusiasm. - Jonathan Demme
I'm guided by my enthusiasm.
Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been somet… - Jonathan Demme
Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been somet…
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion