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Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.

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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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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America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.
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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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Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.
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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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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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When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.
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Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen and politicians.
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I even had success with commercials, which is strange, because out of the six ideas, two won the platinum Minerva in France - it's the Oscar for their commercials. One was about the Renault diesel and the other about the regular Renault.
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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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I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.
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Just go to Disneyland. You have the impact of how the Americans think, how they dream, what they desire, how they have a good time, what they prefer. I associate this with young people. But many times I think this infantile quality is much better than the false, incomplete concept of adulthood.
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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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I think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.
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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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There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.
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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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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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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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There's my pessimism. Because I didn't know yet that type of film is always going to become more extinct, that there won't be anymore. Because there will always be more films that win five Oscars like Terms of Endearment.
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