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Ted Demme

"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."

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Akshay Vasu

"I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them."

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Akshay Vasu

"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."

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Akshay Vasu

"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant."

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Akshay Vasu

"I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship."

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Akshay Vasu

"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

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Akshay Vasu

"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

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Akshay Vasu

"Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue."

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Akshay Vasu

"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

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Akshay Vasu

"The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency."

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Akshay Vasu

"All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know."

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Ted Demme
"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."

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Ted Demme
"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."

Legal

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Ted Demme
"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."

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Ted Demme
"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."

Life

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Ted Demme
"I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film."

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Ted Demme
"I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince."

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Ted Demme
"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."

Love

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Ted Demme
"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."

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Ted Demme
"There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again."

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Ted Demme
"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."

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