"I had always thought that the 'good,' and……" — Sergio Leone
"I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference."
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9 Quotes by Sergio Leone
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Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.
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In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and…
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The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people…
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When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about…
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My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.
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When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just…
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The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world,…
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I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the…
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