“I sent the same version of the movie with ‘Southern Man’ at the front of it to Bruce Springsteen, who I’d worked with a couple of times on videos and I said ‘Bruce, you know, here’s the thing, you know…’. and I shared with him what I just shared with you about wanting an anthem and stuff. And he goes like, ‘okay, I’ll take a look at it, you know’. So then [he] comes back, within a week comes back ‘The Streets of Philadelphia’. And I said, ‘Joanne, god we need the rock anthem, I don’t know what to do anymore, you know, we’ve got Neil bringing us home…’ and she said ‘These artists trust your movie a lot more than you do, you know, so just stick the Springsteen in the front and shut up.’ So that’s kind of what happened there.”
-Jonathan Demme, 2012 Slamdance Festival