Sergio Leone Quotes
My discussion is one that has gone all the way from Fistful of Dollars through Once Upon a Time in America. But if you look closely at all these films, you find in them the same meanings, the same humor, the same point of view, and, also, the same pains.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
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Film has to describe and show.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.
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There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.
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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
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America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.
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And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.
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A lot of the hate mail I get is clearly misogynist. I am a proud liberal, feminist woman, and the hate mail I get about those three things is not about me.
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When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.
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It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.
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I honor God that much in the way I play. That's why I never believe in getting tired. I don't even know what that word means.
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My discussion is one that has gone all the way from Fistful of Dollars through Once Upon a Time in America. But if you look closely at all these films, you find in them the same meanings, the same humor, the same point of view, and, also, the same pains.
