Sergio Leone

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

— Sergio Leone

“[Tuco is in a bubble bath. The One Armed Man enters the room.] One Armed Man: I've been looking for you for…

— Sergio Leone

It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

— Sergio Leone

I was born with this bow tie made of celluloid on my collar.

— Sergio Leone

Whoever would like to look and see what someone is saying behind all the show, glitter, scenery, whatever it may be, and…

— Sergio Leone

When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy.…

— Sergio Leone

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

I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.

— Sergio Leone

I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.

— Sergio Leone

I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done…

— Sergio Leone

I was born in 1929, and in the 50 years from 1930 to 1980, I've been able to live an unbelievably varied…

— Sergio Leone

An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the…

— Sergio Leone

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

The American public is a very specialized public. The reason it is taken as a realistic film is because inside the fable,…

— Sergio Leone

I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even…

— Sergio Leone

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

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

Even when I read a book, if the book leaves me the possibility of finding certain solutions or working on my own…

— Sergio Leone

I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.

— Sergio Leone

When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in…

— Sergio Leone

The first must that any director has is to not force his public.

— Sergio Leone

I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I…

— Sergio Leone

I've always felt that music is more expressive than dialogue. I've always said that my best dialogue and screenwriter is Ennio Morricone.…

— Sergio Leone

All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.

— Sergio Leone

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