All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I think, to go to the bottom of it all, that the films I have made and my kind of film-making is… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
It [film-making] really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed,… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I've seen films that have made as much as $100, $200 million, but they're not films. They're images. They're flashes. They're many… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I had more trouble than I had a sense of utility or satisfaction. But it served to occupy me and to keep… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
The American public is a very specialized public. The reason it is taken as a realistic film is because inside the fable,… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I must be honest and say that I was under the fascination of films. I was fascinated by all films, even the… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters." — Sergio Leone Copy Share
I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters. — Sergio Leone Copy Share
It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas. — Sergio Leone Copy Share
Especially in gangster films, with the gangster's moll - she would always be more or less of an object. And I'm not convinced of… — Sergio Leone Copy Share
When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I… — Sergio Leone Copy Share
My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers. — Sergio Leone Copy Share
It's a little hard to avoid putting both war and politics in, in that they both come into the activity, but on their own.… — Sergio Leone Copy Share
My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America]. — Sergio Leone Copy Share
I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film. — Sergio Leone Copy Share
I'm not saying that the Americans had the same impact as the Jesuits, but I do see them as a very specialized populace, even… — Sergio Leone Copy Share
The world is in America. In Italy is only Italy. France is full of France. Germany is full of Germany. In a continent that… — Sergio Leone Copy Share
What I do is give Ennio Morricone suggestions and describe to him my characters, and then, quite often, he'll possibly write five themes for… — Sergio Leone Copy Share
I didn't want [actress] just to be a woman standing at the window, waving hello and goodbye to men as they came and went… — Sergio Leone Copy Share
Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not… — Sergio Leone Copy Share
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![“[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.” quote by Sergio Leone](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4af/sergio-leone-7185_cinema_the-director-has-to-i-feel-be-one-step-b_659270.jpg)
![“It [film-making] really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's just my way of seeing things.” quote by Sergio Leone](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/251/sergio-leone-7185_cinema_it-film-making-really-just-has-to-do-wit_461520.jpg)
![“An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here [Rome] with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to…” quote by Sergio Leone](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cd6/sergio-leone-7185_accounts_an-important-italian-critic-once-gave-fi_1064129.jpg)
![“You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.” quote by Sergio Leone](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/973/sergio-leone-7185_cinema_you-see-in-once-upon-a-time-in-the-west_2986689.jpg)
