Sergio Leone Quotes
I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
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Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
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He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
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The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class, prosperity seems unattainable because a good education - today's passport to riches - is unaffordable.
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A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
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My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
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I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.
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I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
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The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.
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The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."
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It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find the scenes and build the scenes and invest in them. I think that's key and that's what I've learned from all the great directors I've worked with.
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Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.
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I want a lot of young people to see me in my working environment. I want them to see me being a good person while also running a business. I want young people to aspire to that.
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I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear.
