Jonathan Demme Quotes

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

I love directing as I've got such a fantastic, a creative mind.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday... that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can't wait to do more.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

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 write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.

I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate craft that I would need to study first. So, right now I'm still trying to do certain things as an actor and until I get bored of that or I feel completely fed by that then I'll move into directing.

Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

I always loved the creative process, from 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'Finding Neverland' to 'Basquiat'; whether it's serious, or it's comedic, whether it's the 'inside look' at that, it seems to be a theme of what I do.

I have a dormant director in me. I do think about subjects and films I want to make. I get pretty excited about them.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

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.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.