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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.
Sergio Leone
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Sergio Leone
Age: 60 †
Born: 1929
Born: January 3
Died: 1989
Died: April 30
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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 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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America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.
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Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.
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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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I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.
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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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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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My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].
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