Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today … - Jonathan Demme

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Jonathan Demme

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 love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.

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

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

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I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

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