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Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.

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
Film Producer
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Screenwriter
The Eternal City
Bob Robertson
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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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America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.
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It's very difficult to be original.
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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 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 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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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, 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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It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.
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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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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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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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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 that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.
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