My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers. — 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 don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film. — 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
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's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema. — 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
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'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
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'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
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
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 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
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 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
I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language. — 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 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
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
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
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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