Lorenzo di Bonaventura famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#Asking #Wow #Filmmaker
I always believe, with any kind of hero, that you want to believe that their decision-making is right. That ultimately, I can trust what that guy's sense of right and wrong will be. Even in a vigilante movie, where you are going against the law by definition, you still want to agree with the fact that your character is breaking the law.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#Hero #Believe #Character
Our world faces incredible economic uncertainty. The notion of what is a super power has evolved, and who actually can carry what muscle has changed.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#Our World #Faces #Incredibles
I'm not looking for is the audience going to like it [the film during the first screening] or not. I want to hear somebody try to poke a hole in it. I want to hear why they saw the logic was flawed or why that scene was not believable.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#Trying #Want #Saws
I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#Ensemble #Term #Bland
One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#Dvds #Television #Pay
As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there's no screaming, there's no shouting, there's no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#Bullying #Nice #People
What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#Gravity
What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#Figures
The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#People #Realizing #Bigs
My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#Winning #Wave
It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#Directors #Looks #Body
If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#Want
I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#Mean #Cutting #Thinking
I mean, I'm not a contrarian.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#Mean
The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

#Punching #Action #Shots

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