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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.
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 Jesuits use this kind of training, or, let's say it this way: The Jesuit General imposes this kind of structure he encourages the young men to specialize. Because getting ten of them together, you have the best of everything. But this does not mean that this system is good for the Jesuits all over. They're all available to the cause.
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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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Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.
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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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Whoever would like to look and see what someone is saying behind all the show, glitter, scenery, whatever it may be, and see what ideas are being expressed beyond and below and above that, can do that, as well.
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I think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.
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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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The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.
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