Ted Demme Quotes

I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.

I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny.

There are so many wonderful films being made everywhere, including in Hollywood.

The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.

I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people.

I want to be host of 'SNL.' I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Abrams, Emma Stone and Tim Burton, Sean Penn, Cameron Crowe. I want to work with Adam Sandler - he is so funny - and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.

Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the opportunities it gave me to work with people that I admire as artists.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.

I'd love to win an Oscar; that would be great. I hope to get a feature film that I've made get a wide release. I'm not sure that's ever going to happen.

I really want to work with Hugh Jackman and also Steven Spielberg.

I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.

I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I'd love to get the opportunity to do that.

Oh, my father's had a huge, immense impact on my career. I grew up on movie sets that he was working on, and it just become a part or was a part, was the only part of my life because I spent my whole childhood traveling and being on film sets.