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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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.
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Once you learn to be happy, you won't tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
