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I realized than an author cannot also be a producer.
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
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I had never thought of making a western even as I was making it.
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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 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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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 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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I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.
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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 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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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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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 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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It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.
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