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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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

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Donna Grant

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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Donna Grant

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A."

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Donna Grant

"But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me."

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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
"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."

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

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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
"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
"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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