Sergio Leone Quotes
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 get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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America is our biggest market, and I really do believe if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and you like what you like. But I felt like with 'Pride,' certainly when it was released in America, there were certain things that went on with the marketing where I though we're pandering to whatever the vibe is of that area.
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
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There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.
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First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
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Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
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Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done!
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Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
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John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
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In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
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Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.
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Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you've already seen it.
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We say: he has no talent, only tone. But tone is precisely what cannot be invented-we’re born with it. Tone is an inherited grace, the privilege some of us have of making our organic pulsations felt-tone is more than talent, it is its essence.
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I wanted to tell him not to cry anymore, tell him that what those boys did to that bird didn’t matter. But I knew it did matter. It mattered to Dante. And, anyway, it didn’t do any good to tell him not to cry because he needed to cry. That’s the way he was.
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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.
