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Ted Demme

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

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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."

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"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going."

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"So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there."

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"Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do."

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"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."

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Amber Hurdle

"The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending."

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"All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity."

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"Old is always fifteen years from now."

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"I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits."

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"I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr."

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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."
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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."
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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."
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"There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film."
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