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It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.
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 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, 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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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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There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.
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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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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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My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.
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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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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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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 think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.
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