Sergio Leone Quotes
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I must be honest and say that I was under the fascination of films. I was fascinated by all films, even the words of them. If I was to do a more-precise analysis of the situation, I have to admit that I was more entertained by the bad films than the good ones. Because when something is beautiful, it is there; it is finished; it is done. It doesn't have to be touched or be worked upon.
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It film-making really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's just my way of seeing things.
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I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.
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My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.
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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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It's very difficult to be original.
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It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas.
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It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.
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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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Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."
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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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I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.
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America interests me above all because it is so filled with contradictions, interesting contradictions, which change constantly. Even if you've decided that you don't want to deal with that subject again, before you know it, the desire comes back to do it yet again.
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Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are.
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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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It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.
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I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.
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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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The American public is a very specialized public.
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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.