"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!"

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Source : Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 1998.

Jonathan Demme

#Silence Quotes #Lambs Quotes #Made Quotes

“Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.”
“For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.”
“The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.”
“Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.”

Source : William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”
“What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.”
“One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.”

Source : John Gay (1779). “Fables ... In one volume complete”, p.103
“By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure and displeasure...on the one hand, we have to make the most of our lives; on the other, we have to be sorry and punish ourselves if we don't succeed in doing so. This is a perversion of a very beautiful idea: that everyone has a right to control his own destiny and to improve his life.”

Source : "Perpetual Euphoria On the Duty to Be Happy". Book by Pascal Bruckner, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.
“A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.”

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