Top 28 Quotes by Jonathan Demme

As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.

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!

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

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

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.