You know I'd heard a lot of stories
about Dino before I'd meet him,
and I didn't think it would
go over well, you know,
and I didn't think I would
like being around Dino.
So I went in with that in my mind and
as soon as I entered his office even,
as soon as I sat down
I felt like I was at home.
It was strange though.
De Laurentiis chose David Lynch
to bring Frank Herbert's epic
Sci-Fi novel Dune to the big screen.
Our shared enemy the Harkonnens,
are once again in control of Arrakis.
Stilgar, your leader, has asked me and
my mother to teach you the weirding way,
to crush the Harkonnens.
We must do more than this.
We must totally destroy all
spice production on Arrakis.
Well, you see on Dune I didn't have
final cut so Dino was Dino 100%.
You know everyone has their own
ideas of the way a film should be.
And Dino is a producer who gets involved
from the beginning all the
way through to the end.
And if you don't have final cut
there's not a day hardly that goes by
that you not, you know,
into it with Dino.
So it was a nightmare for me.
I kinda died the death on Dune.
The trouble with Dune, you
know, the trouble with Dune.
We had a fantastic movie when we did
our cut, it was three hour movie.
And Universal "Please Dino,
please Dino we don't need 3 hours
we want 2 hours, 2 hours, 2 hours"
And I did the mistake to listen to
Universal and cut one hour from the movie.
Immediately we cut one hour from
the movie it was not the same movie.
It was not the same movie.
We destroy in the
editing room the movie.
