Dino De Laurentiis Professions : Film Producer Born : August 8, 1919 Died : November 10, 2010 Browse All Authors Top 22 quotes by Dino De Laurentiis My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can. Dino De Laurentiis simple philosophy long You have to kill the bad guy. Dino De Laurentiis bad-guys guy I always say my age is connected with three Cs. In here, cuore, which means the heart. Up here, cervello, which is the brain. And, of course, down here: the coglioni. I no feel my age, I tell you. Dino De Laurentiis brain heart mean To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them. Dino De Laurentiis stars real jobs Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you. Dino De Laurentiis intuition scripts actors If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters. Dino De Laurentiis character two book I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters. Dino De Laurentiis three lucky long If no producer, no movie. Dino De Laurentiis producers ifs I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on. Dino De Laurentiis cameras exciting directors I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young. Dino De Laurentiis girl young two I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor. Dino De Laurentiis actors mirrors ambition If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it. Dino De Laurentiis cinema towns world The pope dies, you get another pope. Dino De Laurentiis pope dies When I cook, my brain stops completely. Dino De Laurentiis cooks brain Making movies is all about instinct. Dino De Laurentiis instinct After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon. Dino De Laurentiis dragons silence stories After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world. Dino De Laurentiis cameras cities war The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love. Dino De Laurentiis suspense drama mean We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital. Dino De Laurentiis limit which ourselves cut It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good. Dino De Laurentiis review american good percent Similar Authors Brian Grazer film-producer Bunny Reuben film-producer Brian Jett film-producer Arthur Cohn film-producer Alan Finger film-producer Ivan Reitman film-producer All Authors
