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Jonathan Demme

"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!"

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"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!"

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"When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy."

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"Silence is the invisible door to God. Silence is the inner door to become one with God."

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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

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