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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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A.E. Samaan

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

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A.E. Samaan

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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"Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen."

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A.E. Samaan

"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."

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"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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A.E. Samaan

"It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it."

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A.E. Samaan

"Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense."

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A.E. Samaan

"We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones."

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

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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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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
"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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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
"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."

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

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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."

Movies

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