The Film Ted Quotes & Sayings

A local director had teamed up with ESPN to tell a story about the Baltimore Colts Marching Band, and the film came out in October of 2009. The 30 for 30 documentary entitled The Band That Wouldn't Die was about how the band stayed in existence for 12 years after the team's painful midnight exodus to Indianapolis and how they eventually became the Marching Ravens. — Ted Patterson

There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland. — Ted Sarandos

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film. — Ted Kotcheff

When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is lyrics. There are a number of songs in the film where the lyrics themselves are very much speaking to the essence of what Ted Geisel was setting out to do. — Christopher Meledandri

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity. — Ted Kotcheff

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

We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it. — Ted Sarandos

Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film. — Ted Sarandos

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film. — Ted Shackelford

We deserve a culture predicated on today's realities, not yesterday's routine. As an independent-film producer and an avid fan of ambitious and diverse work in all forms - and as a citizen of the world - I am always excited to keep up with the changing times. But nothing has prepared me for the onslaught of the last few years. — Ted Hope

You can't work on a film without being changed in some way. — Ted McGinley

'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen. — Ted Sarandos

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

Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film. — Ted Lange

I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention. — Ted Danson