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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.

~Jonathan Demme

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Every film deserves its own unique look.

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

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I'm guided by my enthusiasm.

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Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?

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I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a very popular film. I would hope my enthusiasm could match up with something with that potential.

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If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

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I'm of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to be at least a white male of his generation over the years. Endlessly, he's sung about the stuff that I really care about. He's put into words the feelings that hit you at different transitional moments in life.

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I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.

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They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 22nd, 1944

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