Ideas Turned Quotes by Sergio Leone

Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."

— Sergio Leone

I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters.

— Sergio Leone

It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas.

— Sergio Leone

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

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

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

— Sergio Leone

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

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

I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

— Sergio Leone

I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.

— Sergio Leone

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

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