Sergio Leone Quotes
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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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My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.
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It's very difficult to be original.
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I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.
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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 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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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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There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.
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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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I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.
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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 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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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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Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."
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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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I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.
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The American public is a very specialized public.
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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 think politics should be expressed in this way and not in other ways. And not just politics - sentiments, even certain states of being.