Brunetti Quotes

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south. ~ Dana Brunetti

For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job. ~ Dana Brunetti

You know, Guido, at times I find it difficult to believe you do the sort of work you do. (Medical examiner's view of Commissario Guido Brunetti) ~ Donna Leon

I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond. ~ Dana Brunetti

Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit. ~ Dana Brunetti

People don't change,' she answered, voicing the wisdom Neapolitans had learned over centuries. 'If they suffer enough, they do,' Brunetti said, then quickly amended it to 'or can.' Brunetti's ~ Donna Leon

You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to bring attention to the filmmakers and to the project. ~ Dana Brunetti

When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things. ~ Dana Brunetti

Both of them had always taken delight in this most wonderful of holdovers from the academic Stone Age, the fact that the rector of the university was addressed as "Il Magnifico Rettore," the only thing Brunetti had learned in twenty years on the fringes of the university that had managed to make academic life sound interesting to him. ~ Donna Leon

Brunetti shrugged. They believed him to be a member of the community of scholars...'Community of Scholars," she repeated , "It would make the chickens laugh ~ Donna Leon

His clothing marked him as Italian. The cadence of his speech announced that he was Venetian. His eyes were all policeman. ~ Donna Leon

Where does American money come from? Steel. Railways. You know how it is over there. It doesn't matter if you murder or rob to get it. The trick is in keeping it for a hundred years, and then you're aristocrats.' 'Is that so different from here?' Brunetti asked. 'Of course,' Padovani explained, smiling. 'Here we have to keep it five hundred years before we're aristocrats. And there's another difference. In Italy, you have to be well-dressed. In America, it's difficult to tell which are the millionaires and which are the servants. ~ Donna Leon

Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles ... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself. ~ Dana Brunetti

He hesitated then, anticipating the panic that came when there was nothing left to read.
- Guido Brunetti ~ Donna Leon

Brunetti remembered when they found themselves with an excessive catch, they chose to give it away, rather than watch it rot. ~ Donna Leon

I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors. ~ Dana Brunetti

And that, Brunetti realized, was beginning to interest him a great deal, for the answer to his death must lie there, as it always did. Santore ~ Donna Leon

How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure. ~ Dana Brunetti

The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point. ~ Dana Brunetti

am, as an English poet says in an entirely different context, 'as free as the road, as loose as the wind.'" Brunetti ~ Donna Leon

Women don't use knives,' Griffoni answered, reciting it as though she were Euclid listing another axiom. Although he agreed with her, Brunetti was curious about the basis for her belief. 'You offering proof of that?' 'Kitchens,' she said laconically. 'Kitchens?' 'The knives are kept in the kitchen, and their husbands pass through there every day, countless times, yet very few of them get stabbed. That's because women don't use knives, and they don't stab people. ~ Donna Leon

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that. ~ Dana Brunetti

The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously, I knew that if I was to spend however long it would take to write this book with him, this man would have to be someone I'd like to have dinner with. ~ Donna Leon

At one point, Paola expressed a wish and used the subjunctive, and Brunetti felt himself close to tears at the beauty of the intellectual complexity of it: she could speak about what was not, could invent an alternative reality. He ~ Donna Leon

Everybody is always going to have haters. It comes with the job. You have to have a tough skin and not let it affect you. ~ Dana Brunetti

What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future. ~ Dana Brunetti

When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?' ~ Dana Brunetti

There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table. ~ Dana Brunetti

If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot. ~ Dana Brunetti

It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it? ~ Dana Brunetti

You talk about Steve Jobs when he came out with the iPhone, and everyone thought it was amazing: you touch it and move the screen. ~ Dana Brunetti

You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it. ~ Dana Brunetti

You can learn a lot from somebody's video bio: if you're not going to gel with the actor or a crew. ~ Dana Brunetti

If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that. ~ Dana Brunetti

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office. ~ Dana Brunetti

Appointment viewing is dead, and I think it is going away. ~ Dana Brunetti

Brunetti asked, surprised how painful he still found the thought of his mother. He had tried for the last year, with singular lack of success, to tell himself that his mother, that bright-spirited woman who had raised them and loved them with unqualified devotion, had moved off to some other place, where she waited, still quickwitted and eager to smile, for that befuddled shell that was her body to come and join her so that they could drift off together to a final peace. 'I ~ Donna Leon