Quotes by Ted Demme - Page 1

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.
Ted Demme / Film Director
Miramax
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
Ted Demme / Film Director
Dramas
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
Ted Demme / Film Director
European Countries
Film
Kurosawa
Fellini
Influenced
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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.
Ted Demme / Film Director
Brother
Guy
Two
Life Great My Life
Brothers
Funniest
Miramax
Weinstein
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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 probably be legal.
Ted Demme / Film Director
Legal
Drug
Humble
Marijuana
Opinion
Pot
Tequila
Humble Opinion
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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 got good and how the bad guys got bad.
Ted Demme / Film Director
Bad Guys
Curious
Guy
Real
Good Bad More
Good Guys
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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 father and his son, and that son and his daughter.
Ted Demme / Film Director
Daughter
Father
Game Plan
Love Story
Mother
Son
Love Always Game
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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, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
Ted Demme / Film Director
Confidential
Looks
Pieces
Retro
Thinking
Period
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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 love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.
Ted Demme / Film Director
Best Friend
Friendship
Brother
Direct
I Love Him
Life Love Best
Big Brother
Jonathan
Route
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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 they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
Ted Demme / Film Director
Expensive
Little Bit
Pressure
Studios
Filmmakers
Films
Larger
Note
Tuck
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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 movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.
Ted Demme / Film Director
Lit
Watched
Camera
Time Amazing Movies
Colors
Movements
Stocks
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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 to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
Ted Demme / Film Director
Accomplish
Being Honest
Entertaining
Bend
Confident
Ending
Happy Ending
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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 it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
Ted Demme / Film Director
Produce
Good Myself New
Developed
New Line
Studio
Smaller
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