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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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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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My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.
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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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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 easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.
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I had never thought of making a western even as I was making it.
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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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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 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 think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.
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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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