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
Because the life that I live - the life that we all live - is filtered through [one's own] experience. It isn't… — 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
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
I consciously chose a person like the bounty killer [of the Fistful trilogy] because he was the street sweeper of the desert,… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared. — 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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