I have to be honest about one thing. When I want to America, no on asked me how I was. Everyone always… — 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
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
Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America. — 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
I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
The world is in America. In Italy is only Italy. France is full of France. Germany is full of Germany. In a… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
We're talking a very cultivated people, but I found as cultivated as they were, they were uninformed about the personages who weren't… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy.… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
My discussion is one that has gone all the way from Fistful of Dollars through Once Upon a Time in America. But… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
America interests me above all because it is so filled with contradictions, interesting contradictions, which change constantly. Even if you've decided that… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America… — 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
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
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters." — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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