Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme discussing William Goldman's contribution to the film

Reading about Demme's Stop Making Sense sent me down a wormhole that led me to this: Demme (RIP) talking to Deadline about how the Princess Bride/Butch Cassidy/All the President's Men screenwriter (also RIP) called him, unsolicited, and told him to cut a lengthy sequence from Silence of the Lambs. (Goldman had seen a screening of the film before its release.)

It worked, of course; Silence of the Lambs is a perfect movie.

https://deadline.com/2017/04/the-silence-of-the-lambs-25th-anniversary-untold-tales-jonathan-demme-ted-tally-hannibal-lecter-clarice-starling-1201703981/

submitted by /u/MistleFeast
[link] [comments]

source https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/fa5tn6/silence_of_the_lambs_director_jonathan_demme/