Jonathan Demme Quotes

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does, for awhile, become family.

When you're working with a producer, there has to be chemistry.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

Part of the process of acting in a film that you're also directing is really trusting the people around you to capture your vision, which hopefully you have communicated well to them.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it.

Filmmaking is so heavy: there are so many people and trucks and teamsters and costume people and hair people and makeup people. I try to make it light and as simple as possible. It's great for actors. It puts the story up front. It's not about shots and dollies and lighting and sets.

Craftsmanship and logic is key to any movie-making.

Collaboration is part of what keeps me interested in music.

2 Chainz and I have a history. It's always an honor and pleasure working with him, because it seems like everything we do is dope. We just have that organic chemistry.

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

I love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together.

There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to make all the sketches and I can see the vision of the movie and then I start my job.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.