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It's very difficult to be original.

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
Bob Robertson
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Whoever would like to look and see what someone is saying behind all the show, glitter, scenery, whatever it may be, and see what ideas are being expressed beyond and below and above that, can do that, as well.
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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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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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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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My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.
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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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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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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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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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America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.
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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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The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.
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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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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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Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.
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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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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 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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It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.
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Young people of this century, like my son, didn't live through all those things that went on during that period of time, from 1930 to 1950. They're missing that experience. To go from a bicycle to a vehicle that takes somebody to the moon - only we saw this kind of thing.
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