“The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real b...” — Ted Demme Quote

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.”

“The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound.”

“I've played a lot of bad guys over the years, a lot of hardcore guys. At the same time, I've done a lot of comedy.”