Cinema Quote by Sergio Leone

“It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.”

Sergio Leone

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

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

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

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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…

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

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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. My basic idea is to do a great love film set in the hell of 1942. At that moment, hell was Leningrad. Underneath all this, of course, is a film about dissension between the two most…

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My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].

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I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

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

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The world is in America. In Italy is only Italy. France is full of France. Germany is full of Germany. In a continent that…

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