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 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
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
Young people of this century, like my son, didn't live through all those things that went on during that period of time,… — 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
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
Just go to Disneyland. You have the impact of how the Americans think, how they dream, what they desire, how they have… — 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
The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people can feel… — 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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