Ted Demme Quotes

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• I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a…
• You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I…
• I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
• I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.
• The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys…
• The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.
• What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh,…
• But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should…
• And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera…
• I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or…
• I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure…
• That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made…
• There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

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