Jonathan Demme Quotes

I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.

I love making movies.

I fell in love with 'Ben Hur' when I was 8 years old, and I just knew I had to be involved in movies, even if I was the guy who melted the butter on the popcorn.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.

If you love movies, then you love America.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

I believe that the process could be fun, I just think that making movies is really tough. And it's stressful as it is, and I think that most of us got in this business because it's fun to make movies.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.

I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

I choose not to be in front of the camera. Sometimes I do get offered parts, but I really like just making movies and telling stories.

I love being part of cinema and I don't see myself doing anything else.

That's the time I remember as a kid, being so excited to go to the movies. To be part of that now is really an amazing gift.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.