Jonathan Demme

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.