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I think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.
Sergio Leone
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Sergio Leone
Age: 60 †
Born: 1929
Born: January 3
Died: 1989
Died: April 30
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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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I think, to go to the bottom of it all, that the films I have made and my kind of film-making is a hybrid type of film-making - in that it isn't American, it isn't Italian.
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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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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 had never thought of making a western even as I was making it.
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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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There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.
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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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As Claude LeLouche said, his favorite American director is Sergio Leone. Not because I would be American, but because I was dealing with subject matter that an American could have just as easily dealt with.
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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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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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The world is in America. In Italy is only Italy. France is full of France. Germany is full of Germany. In a continent that contains the entire world, contradictions are, of course, constantly arising.
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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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I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director.
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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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It's natural to me that someone who loved that type of music or that type of spectacle would copy it, to do something, a video. It seems the most natural thing in the world to me.
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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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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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In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
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