Dino De Laurentiis
Dino De Laurentiis
Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiiswas an Italian film producer. Along with Carlo Ponti, he was one of the producers that brought Italian cinema to the international scene at the end of WWII. He produced or co-produced more than 500 films, of which 38 were nominated for Academy Awards. He also had a brief acting career in the late 1930s and early 1940s...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionFilm Producer
Date of Birth8 August 1919
CountryItaly
stars jobs real
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.
heart mean brain
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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You have to kill the bad guy.
philosophy simple long
My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.
cut italian-director
We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.
captured hannibal italian-director scenes
These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.
italian-director likes mr tony
Mr Tony Hopkins says he's willing to do it if he likes the script.
fantastic italian-director reviews sixty
It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good.
create industry italian italian-director money poor shoot
Italian industry was so poor we had no money for studio, to create the set, to go anyplace. We had to shoot everything in the street.
acquired books buying character hannibal italian-director rights
I have the rights to all the books where the character of Hannibal Lecter appears, I acquired these by buying the rights to Red Dragon.