Jonathan Demme
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"Robert Jonathan Demme" is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs (film)/The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed films Philadelphia (film)/Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense and a trilogy of Neil Young documentary/concert movies. His latest film A Master Builder opened in New York during June 2014 and was based on the 19th century play by Henrik Ibsen.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Alive From Off Center.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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