Bonaventura Quotes

#1. Lionsgate and Lorenzo di Bonaventura saw my Korean Western-style film, 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' and probably felt that I would be right for 'The Last Stand,' which could be classified as a modern Western.

Kim Jee-woon

#2. My experiences with the older audience and, selectively, the people I hang out with or run into, they all want to see Arnold [Schwarzenegger] kick some ass.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#3. It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#4. My backpack has seven or eight DVDs in it and four or five of them have been there three months and I'm desperate to get to them.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#5. I mean, I'm not a contrarian.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#6. 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

#7. The hardest thing, as a producer, is to find a director who does the picture for all the right reasons, and not just because they know it's successful or that they can do a good job, but in their bones, they love that genre.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#8. 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

#9. Why don't you just admit that you wanted to belong to him? Why don't you admit that part of you still does?

Leigh Bardugo

#10. A fool stumbles when he walks; the wise are not hampered even when they run.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#12. I think that running a studio gave me an appetite for making a lot of different kinds of movies and it's given me the opportunity to do that.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

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

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#14. I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#15. People laugh at me because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#16. Trying not to think about it is only making it worse.

Cat Patrick

#17. The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#18. 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

#19. Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#20. 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

#21. I like playing the same person over and over again. I've done shows for over a year on Broadway, and I never get bored.

Ana Gasteyer

#22. I used to do a stunt in almost every movie. When I became an executive, all the insurance guys freaked out.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#26. I always consult five to ten people who are hardcore fans, to see how far I can push a role. When they go, "Wait a second, you can't do that! That's a sin!," you go, "Okay, fine, we're not going to do that. We tried too far."

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#27. 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

#28. If a character dies, you should feel that. If a character accomplishes something, you should feel that. That's where you try to find that balance. It's impossible to articulate, as you go through it. You just have to recognize it.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#29. What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#30. Many of the big changes of the next 25 years will come from unknowns working in their bedrooms and garages...

Charles W. Leadbeater

#31. But fundamentally, I don't think of it as an alien-invasion movie; everybody's here, kind of, right? So, I think it's probably more of an action-adventure picture, if I actually had to qualify it.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#32. My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura