I felt from time to time that ...

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.
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 Jonathan Demme

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I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.
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A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.
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As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.
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I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.
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I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.
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