"If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something."

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

Jonathan Demme

#Singing Quotes #Film Quotes

“You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.”
“It's the song in your heart that wants you to help make yourself a better person, and to help other people do the same. Everybody has one.”
“The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.”
“Don't look for Love, look for the one looking for Love.”
“Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.”
“There is nothing more powerful than peace.”
“Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.”
“The [chief] characteristic of Hitler's leadership [was] his over-estimation of the power of the will. [To win the war] this will had only to be translated into faith down to the youngest private soldier.”

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