"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 something that I've been really enthusiastic about."

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Source : "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

Jonathan Demme

#Mean Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work.”
“â€¦ the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.”
“Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.”

Source : Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.233
“Cancer was the most terrifying, arduous, painful thing, but it was also a profound gift in the sense that I was holding so much in my body for so many years that was dark and terrifying which was preventing my coming back into myself.”
“Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.”
“Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.”
“Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?”
“I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.”

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