When I cook, my brain stops completely.

- Dino De Laurentiis

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 chara…

- Dino De Laurentiis

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 le…

- Dino De Laurentiis

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

- Dino De Laurentiis

The pope dies, you get another pope.

- Dino De Laurentiis

Making movies is all about instinct.

- Dino De Laurentiis

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 wou…

- 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…

- Dino De Laurentiis

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…

- Dino De Laurentiis