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Lorenzo di Bonaventura Biography

Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Italian pronunciation: [loˈrɛntso diˌbɔnavenˈtura]; born January 13, 1957) is an American film producer and founder of his company Di Bonaventura Pictures. He is known for producing the Transformers film series.

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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.

Hero, Believe, Character, Right, Movie

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

Cutting, Mean, Right, Think, Thinking, Track

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

Guy, Used, Executives, Freaked, Became

The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.

Punching, Action, Shots, Punched, Gets

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.

Hole, Poke, Saws, Screening, Trying, Want

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?

Asking, Wow, Filmmaker, Question, Intelligence

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.

Running, Opportunity, Thinking, Movies, Making, Appetite

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.

Adventure, Thinking, Invasion, Picture, Probably, Think

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.

Book, Different, Fundamentally, Ideas, Perfectly, Toy

One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.

Dvds, Television, Pay, Segments, Driving

The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.

People, Realizing, Bigs, Realize, Piracy, Big

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.

Older, People, Run, Running, See, Want

As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there's no screaming, there's no shouting, there's no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set.

Bullying, Nice, People, Experience, Everyone, Insure

What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.

Gravity, Movies, Searching, Keep, Right

My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.

Experience, Tidal Waves, Wave, Win, Winning

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

Want, Studios, Ifs, Spend, Studio, Movie

I don't like the term 'ensemble. ' It's bland to me.

Bland, Ensemble, Like, Term

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.

Directors, Jobs, Producer, Right, Successful, Thing

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

Past, Way, Backgrounds, Everybody, Person

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