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Ted Demme
 
Date of birth: 26 October 1963
Date of death: 13 January 2002
Country Of Origin: America
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Film Director

Biography:
   Ted Demme (October 26, 1963 – January 13, 2002), born in New York, New York, was an American film director and producer. He was the nephew of movie producer and director Jonathan Demme. His career had modest beginnings — starting as a production assistant at MTV, he later created the cable network's seminal hip-hop show Yo! MTV Raps and directed other projects for them, including the infamous black-and-white rants starring then-unknown chain-smoking comedian Denis Leary. His best know .... (More...)
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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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" But I have come firmly to believe that the punishment of drug offenders is really bad in our country. It's cockeyed. "

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" 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. "

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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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" I grew up in Long Island and went to school in upstate New York. Everyone gravitates towards big city characters. But I'm drawn towards antiheroes, not your normal kind of leading me. "

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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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" 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 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. "

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

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

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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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" So no matter what I do, on any level there's always some Jonathanism that's in my blood which I'm very proud of and have no problem with. "

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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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" 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. "

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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. "

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