Dino De Laurentiis

Director

Kingdom of Italy

1919 - 2010

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My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.
Dino De Laurentiis
I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'
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I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.
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We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.
Dino De Laurentiis
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.
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