Ted Demme
Ted Demme
Edward Kern "Ted" Demmewas an American film director and producer...
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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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We had the greatest love affair of all time.
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My job is to make sure it does not become spring break out there. I can let you in, but I can't let your other five friends in. It's not based on age or looks. There's an amazing group of people from all forms of business, whether it's entertainment or music or great photographers, great art directors, great publishers, amazing businessmen and women, and it's a great mix in age. You want to maintain that glamour and classiness. It's an overall blend.
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Like a Pearl Harbor, they're going into their opening weekend knowing that they spent $110 million making this movie. That pressure must be enormous.
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I want them to have what they need. I'll tell you this, ... I don't want to grow old in L.A. I'll make movies and do clubs somewhere else. It's a city of youth. And dreams. I'm very East Coast. I want to experience the world and L.A. is not the world. And I want to be around my family. L.A.'s a great place to do what you gotta do. When my kids are in high school, I bet you New York will be so much better.
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It's a place of fabulous people from all types of businesses: movies, fashion, music, art, with politicians, photographers, graphic designers and pro athletes,
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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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.
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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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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.
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You're always going to get cold. It's like life. You have to be able to deal with the idea that you can't always be on top. You can't. We're on fire now. But in my heart I know there's going to be a moment -- it's like putting out a record. When you first put out a record, it's incredible. Then it has its life, and we have to go back and make a new record to have another life.
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I mean look, the thing about movie making and criticism and producing movies now, everyone compares everything to something else.
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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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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.