- After studying art and cinema, Demy worked as assistant for animator Paul Grimault and director Georges Rouquier. He was influenced as a film maker at once by the French New Wave, and by Hollywood. His best films are, consequently, hybrids of both, often concerning relationships between dreams and reality. He is best known for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).
- Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1977
- Demy never used stand-ins.
- As a student, Demy didn't learn any foreign languages. In the 1960s, with the help of some classes, internships, & spending some time in the United States, he learned English. At the time of the Anouchka project, which took many years to complete, he also learned Russian.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 259-262. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
- In the early 1970s, (taking after the example of Michel Legrand) Demy earned his private pilot's license for passenger planes.
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