Dino De Laurentiis Quotes

#1. One time in the late '50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role - the assumption being that we weren't friends - we marched up to producer Dino De Laurentiis's door and declared in unison, 'We don't think we're suitable for the part.'

Peter O'Toole

#2. You have to kill the bad guy.

Dino De Laurentiis

#3. Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky

#4. It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good.

Dino De Laurentiis

#5. Making movies is all about instinct.

Dino De Laurentiis

#6. Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

Sylvester McCoy

#7. At its heart, a startup is a catalyst that transforms ideas into products.

Eric Ries

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. When I cook, my brain stops completely.

Dino De Laurentiis

#11. What will happen to you if I win?" I whispered.
A smile crossed his lips, but the corners were downturned, more sad than satisfied. "You know," he said. "You're the only one who's ever asked.

S. Jae-Jones

#12. Mr Tony Hopkins says he's willing to do it if he likes the script.

Dino De Laurentiis

#13. 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

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

Dino De Laurentiis

#15. But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

Paul McCartney

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

Dino De Laurentiis

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

Dino De Laurentiis

#18. If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

Lars Von Trier

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

Howard Hodgkin

#22. 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

#23. If it weren't for second chances, we'd all be alone.

Gregory Alan Isakov

#24. These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.

Dino De Laurentiis

#25. 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

#26. In a world in which success was the only virtue, he had resigned himself to failure.

Joseph Heller

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

Dino De Laurentiis

#28. The pope dies, you get another pope.

Dino De Laurentiis

#29. 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

#30. We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.

Dino De Laurentiis

#31. This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.

Curtis White

#32. I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.

Giada De Laurentiis