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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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Akshay Vasu

"It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place."

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Akshay Vasu

"What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't."

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Akshay Vasu

"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."

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Akshay Vasu

"It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone."

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Akshay Vasu

"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."

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Akshay Vasu

"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."

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Akshay Vasu

"I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks."

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Akshay Vasu

"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."

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Akshay Vasu

"If you want to be happy, be."

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Akshay Vasu

"I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go."

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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
"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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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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