Dino De Laurentiis famous quotes

03-28-2025

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.
-- Dino De Laurentiis

#Philosophy #Simple #Long
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
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 #Directors #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

#Book #Character #Two
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

#Long #Lucky #Three
If no producer, no movie.
-- Dino De Laurentiis

#Producers
I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.
-- Dino De Laurentiis

#Cameras #Directors #Exciting
I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young.
-- Dino De Laurentiis

#Girl #Two #Young
I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.
-- Dino De Laurentiis

#Ambition #Mirrors #Actors
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 #World #Towns
The pope dies, you get another pope.
-- Dino De Laurentiis

#Pope
When I cook, my brain stops completely.
-- Dino De Laurentiis

#Brain #Cooks
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

#War #Cities #Cameras
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

#Jobs #Stars #Real

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