Dino De Laurentiis Quotes

• My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Philosophy, Simple, Long

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• 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

  Drama, Mean, Suspense

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• If no producer, no movie.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Producers, Ifs

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• 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, Actors, Scripts

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• You have to kill the bad guy.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Guy, Bad Guys

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• 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.

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  Heart, Mean, Brain

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• Making movies is all about instinct.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Instinct

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• 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.

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  Stars, Jobs, Real

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• When I cook, my brain stops completely.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Brain, Cooks

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• I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

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  Ambition, Mirrors, Actors

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• 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.

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  War, Cities, Cameras

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• 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

  Book, Character, Two

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• The pope dies, you get another pope.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Pope, Dies

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• 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.

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  Long, Lucky, Three

  "Producer Dino de Laurentiis Passes Away at Age 91" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 11, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Dragons, Silence, Stories

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• I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Cameras, Directors, Exciting

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• 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.

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  Cinema, World, Towns

  "How Dino De Laurentiis Defied Moviemaking Convention" by Kirk Honeycutt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 12, 2010.

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• I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Girl, Two, Young

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