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It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.
Sergio Leone -
I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.
Sergio Leone
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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.
Sergio Leone -
It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas.
Sergio Leone -
The director has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.
Sergio Leone -
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?"
Sergio Leone -
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.
Sergio Leone -
It's very difficult to be original.
Sergio Leone
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I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.
Sergio Leone -
I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director.
Sergio Leone -
It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.
Sergio Leone -
I was born in 1929, and in the 50 years from 1930 to 1980, I've been able to live an unbelievably varied century. Before, you could never have seen such intense change in a 50-year span.
Sergio Leone -
I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.
Sergio Leone -
There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.
Sergio Leone
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Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."
Sergio Leone -
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.
Sergio Leone -
I think politics should be expressed in this way and not in other ways. And not just politics - sentiments, even certain states of being.
Sergio Leone -
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.
Sergio Leone -
The first must that any director has is to not force his public.
Sergio Leone -
The American public is a very specialized public.
Sergio Leone