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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?

Sergio Leone

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Sergio Leone
Age: 60 †
Born: 1929
Born: January 3
Died: 1989
Died: April 30
Actor
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Film Director
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The Eternal City
Bob Robertson
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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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We're talking a very cultivated people, but I found as cultivated as they were, they were uninformed about the personages who weren't American. They knew everything about America, but much less about other countries.
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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 don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.
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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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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 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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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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Because the life that I live - the life that we all live - is filtered through [one's own] experience. It isn't necessarily optimistic when you look at the political phenomena, the different things that are going on in the world.
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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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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 had never thought of making a western even as I was making it.
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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.
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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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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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It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.
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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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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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The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.
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