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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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A.E. Samaan

"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech."

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A.E. Samaan

"Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants."

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A.E. Samaan

"We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that."

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A.E. Samaan

"Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball."

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A.E. Samaan

"Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion."

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A.E. Samaan

"And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat."

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A.E. Samaan

"I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people."

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A.E. Samaan

"God is the King. In him exists all legal authority."

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A.E. Samaan

"Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity."

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A.E. Samaan

"Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years."

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

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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
"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
"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."

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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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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."

Movies

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Ted Demme
"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."

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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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