Sergio Leone Quotes
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When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.
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It's very difficult to be original.
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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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The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people can feel that. That's what makes people feel comfortable. It is important to appear confident with clients, but it is more important to not be afraid to act like a fool, have fun, laugh and shake your hips to get people comfortable.
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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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I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.
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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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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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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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It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.
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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 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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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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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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I think politics should be expressed in this way and not in other ways. And not just politics - sentiments, even certain states of being.
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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.