Jonathan Demme Quotes

"Neil would be singing these songs for the first time ever to an audience that never heard them before. He'd be so communicative under those circumstances."
-Jonathan Demme

"It puts me in touch with some deeply felt, old-fashioned, powerful ideas about what America stands for, what the family stands for, what friends stand for. There's a complete absence of cynicism. I think it makes you feel good to be human."
-Jonathan Demme

"All my life I have been in love with film and music, and this feels like the best opportunity I have ever had to work with a fusion of the two artistic mediums."
-Jonathan Demme

"That's the only time he'd do it."
-Jonathan Demme

"Alive From Off Center."
-Jonathan Demme

"Sometimes it worries me if people think that this is a movie about slavery, or it's a movie that's going to challenge you on the level of how you feel about slavery that they're going to resist seeing it."
-Jonathan Demme

"Seeing Neil Young expressing these lyrics and seeing the emotions that register on his face in his style of presentation is a sublime extra for understanding his music."
-Jonathan Demme

"I remember him telling me that he was going to New York for a couple of days. I could've sworn that he told me he was going to a foot doctor."
-Jonathan Demme