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The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

Sergio Leone

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Sergio Leone
Age: 60 †
Born: 1929
Born: January 3
Died: 1989
Died: April 30
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The Eternal City
Bob Robertson
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All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.
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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 same time.
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I consciously chose a person like the bounty killer [of the Fistful trilogy] because he was the street sweeper of the desert, a man who put his life at risk exclusively for the money. I'm not saying that he went against the law, but he put himself within the wings of the law only when it was something that he could profit by.
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There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.
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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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I think politics should be expressed in this way and not in other ways. And not just politics - sentiments, even certain states of being.
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I have to be honest about one thing. When I want to America, no on asked me how I was. Everyone always asked me, How much do you make?
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The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation that somebody who wants to understand America doesn't really need to visit it much.
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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 this theory. Because I think even gangsters' women have brains. They think and even, as we say, have balls.
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Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are.
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America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.
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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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I had never thought of making a western even as I was making it.
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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 specialized.
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It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.
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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 in terms of being, to a degree, naïve. Because naiveté comes from lack of information.
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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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Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.
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From Ennio [Morricone] I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He's never read a script of mine to compose the music, because many times he's composed the music before the script is ever written.
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