Jonathan Demme and the Making of 'The Manchurian Candidate' (2004)

Jonathan Demme talks about how he got his start in the film industry and his journey from working with producer Roger Corman to his status today as an Academy Award winning Hollywood director. Going behind the scenes of "The Manchurian Candidate", he speaks of his working methods, his relationships with actors, and the various themes to be found throughout his work.

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Demme, Jonathan Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Zeitoun

  2014, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Line of Sight

  2014, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Line of Sight

  2014, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Song One

  2014, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Brothers of the Black List

  2013, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Fear of Falling

  2013, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Everett Ruess Wilderness Song

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Gimme the Loot

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Enzo Avitabile Music Life

  2012, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Enzo Avitabile Music Life

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Kenny Chesney: Unstaged

  2012, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Pablo

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Neil Young Journeys

  2011, role: director
• Play in Full Screen I'm Carolyn Parker

  2011, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen I'm Carolyn Parker

  2011, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Neil Young Journeys

  2011, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Tavis Smiley Reports

  2010, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Crude Independence

  2009, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Neil Young Trunk Show

  2009, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Neil Young Trunk Show

  2009, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Neil Young Trunk Show

  2009, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen A Benefit Performance for Barack Obama featuring Toni Morrison

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ceremonia de clausura - 56º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Rachel Getting Married

  2008, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen 9th Annual State of the Black Union: Memorable Moments

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 9th Annual State of the Black Union: Breaking New Ground

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 9th Annual State of the Black Union: Building Blocks for America

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Rachel Getting Married

  2008, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Resumen - 56º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Premio Donostia a Meryl Streep

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen Ceremonia de inauguración - 56º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Right to Return: New Home Movies from the Lower 9th Ward

  2007, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Right to Return: New Home Movies from the Lower 9th Ward

  2007, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Zoom In: Stories Behind the Best Independent Films of 2007

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Jimmy Carter Man from Plains

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Jimmy Carter Man from Plains

  2007, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Jimmy Carter Man from Plains

  2007, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Jimmy Carter Man from Plains

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Legends Ball

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Finishing Touches

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Neil Young: Heart of Gold

  2006, role: director
• Play in Full Screen These Old Guitars

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Fellow Travelers

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Cruising with Neil

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Neil Young: Heart of Gold

  2006, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Cruising with the Band

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen San Sebastián 2006: Crónica de Carlos Boyero

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Jonathan Demme:

"That's the only time he'd do it."

"Each year, Cognac makes its mark with enthusiasm, style and confidence and it's wonderful to be taking part in this year's edition."

"Neil would be singing these songs for the first time ever to an audience that never heard them before. He'd be so communicative under those circumstances."

"I remember him telling me that he was going to New York for a couple of days. I could've sworn that he told me he was going to a foot doctor."

"It puts me in touch with some deeply felt, old-fashioned, powerful ideas about what America stands for, what the family stands for, what friends stand for. There's a complete absence of cynicism. I think it makes you feel good to be human."

"Seeing Neil Young expressing these lyrics and seeing the emotions that register on his face in his style of presentation is a sublime extra for understanding his music."

"Sometimes it worries me if people think that this is a movie about slavery, or it's a movie that's going to challenge you on the level of how you feel about slavery that they're going to resist seeing it."

"Alive From Off Center."

"All my life I have been in love with film and music, and this feels like the best opportunity I have ever had to work with a fusion of the two artistic mediums,"

"I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie."

"I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great."

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

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

"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."

"When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!"

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