Ted Demme Quotes

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

Ted Demme

#2. 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.

Ted Demme

#3. You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#4. But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the place where she really belonged, where it was always warm and you could dance in the rain, pick grapes right off the vines, and sleep outside at night under the stars.

Jeannette Walls

#5. High school was so much fun, and it wasn't a wreck at all.

AnnaSophia Robb

#6. 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.

Ted Demme

#7. I closed my mouth in order to cut off the high-pitched keening escaping my lips. Who knew a wolf could scream like a jungle cat?

Micalea Smeltzer

#8. Kindness! What a wonderful way to touch someone's heart.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.

Charles Brent

#10. Normally Halloween was like Christmas for me. I would anticipate it for weeks, decorating myself and the house, as well as strolling around the neighborhood, admiring everyone else's decorations. Nothing lifts my spirit like a scarecrow in the front yard.

Damien Echols

#11. 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.

Ted Demme

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

Ted Demme

#13. She took my hand and told me not to grieve; for wherever we were, she said, there was France and there was God.

W. Somerset Maugham

#14. 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.

Ted Demme

#15. 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.

Ted Demme

#16. 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.

Ted Demme

#17. Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.

Marguerite Moreau

#18. The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

Ted Demme

#19. 99% of businesses fail for one reason. They never start.

David Hieatt

#20. 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.

Ted Demme

#21. Your dreams get perfect assistant if it goes connecting with great people.

Israelmore Ayivor

#22. There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

Ted Demme

#23. Those who have no knowledge are often willing to occupy influential positions with the aim of acquiring every possible benefit.

Eraldo Banovac

#24. Homer begged and Rembrandt went bankrupt. Aristotle, who had money for books, his school, and his museum, could not have bought this painting of himself.
Rembrandt could not afford a Rembrandt.

Joseph Heller

#25. Perhaps the body was not a cage that held the soul, but a hand that gripped it like a cane, appearing to guide it, to command it, but all the while dependent upon it, gripping it all the tighter the more that it needed it, finally letting it go.

Christopher R. Beha

#26. 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.

Ted Demme

#27. 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.

Ted Demme