Ted Demme Quotes
I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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Film has to describe and show.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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Movies are too literal.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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There are so many movies people make just to make money.
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I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
