Ted Demme Quotes
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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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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Impulses are hard to come by these days.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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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.
