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"Jonathan Demme has confessed that he is &amp;quot;not comfortable&amp;quot; with the high cost of making movies in Hollywood.  The Silence of the Lambs director revealed that he became aware of the financial pitfalls of film-making after 2004&amp;#039;s The Manchurian Candidate underperformed at the box office despite the project&amp;#039;s $80 million cost. &amp;quot;I made a version of Manchurian Candidate that cost a fortune. It was just so much money, and you think of something like Napoleon Dynamite made for under $100,000 and you&amp;#039;re like, &amp;#039;F**k, I want to do that&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; Demme explained to PopEater. &amp;quot;The effort going into making these huge budget Hollywood movies wasn&amp;#039;t for me. After The Manchurian Candidate, I had to rest up and get re-acquainted with myself.&amp;quot; Demme added that he hopes to change the process in the future, saying: &amp;quot;To do these high style films now it costs so much to make them and I am not comfortable spending a lot of money on a movie anymore.  &amp;quot;The money is needed in other places. I love the stuff you see on YouTube made by 12-year-olds.&amp;quot; Anthony Hopkins recently expressed his gratitude to Demme for casting him in the role of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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