Latest Lorenzo di Bonaventura Quotes from Interviews

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

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Past, Way, Backgrounds

  "Producer Lorenzo De Bonaventura On Set Interview G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA". Group interview, collider.com. July 30, 2009.

• 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

  Eight, Dvds, Four

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Running, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Guy, Used, Executives

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Running, People, Want

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Jobs, Successful, Directors

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  People, Waiting, Fans

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Character, Balance, Trying

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Adventure, Thinking, Invasion

  Source: collider.com

• We've never pulled from the toy line. We've always pulled from the mythology. What's great is there's so much mythology, so there's always stuff to pull from that. It never lines up perfectly for a movie; it's just like adapting a book or anything else, you know? But you come up with things to create, you come up with different ideas, but fundamentally the ideas always start from the mythology.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Book, Ideas, Different

  Source: collider.com

• I think what's fun of making a Transformers movie is that it gets to be all of the above. I think, thematically, this movie is ... because of the third movie, you can ask questions in this movie you couldn't ask in the previous films. Like I was referring to the fact that they were abandoned by humans in the previous film; their attitude is different, so we've been able to tackle different themes.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Fun, Attitude, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Trying, Saws, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

• I always believe, with any kind of hero, that you want to believe that their decision-making is right. That ultimately, I can trust what that guy's sense of right and wrong will be. Even in a vigilante movie, where you are going against the law by definition, you still want to agree with the fact that your character is breaking the law.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Hero, Believe, Character

  "Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura Talks the Challenge of Rebooting the Franchise, Casting Chris Pine, and More on the Set of JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 6, 2014.

• 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

  Our World, Faces, Incredibles

• 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

  Asking, Wow, Filmmaker

  Source: collider.com