Sergio Leone Quotes

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• When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.

  Sergio Leone

  Funny, Movie, Humorous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.

  Sergio Leone

  Real, Important, Different

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• I've always felt that music is more expressive than dialogue. I've always said that my best dialogue and screenwriter is Ennio Morricone. Because, many times, it is more important a note or an orchestration than a line said.

  Sergio Leone

  Important, Lines, Notes

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

  Sergio Leone

  Character, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

  Sergio Leone

  Reading, Vices, Cinema

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• I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

  Sergio Leone

  Imagination, Cinema, Always Believe

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America had already been invented by the philosophers, the vagabonds, the dispersed of this earth, long before the Spanish ships got there. Those whom we call Americans have only rented it for a time. If they behave badly, we can discover another 'America'. The contract can be canceled at any time.

  Sergio Leone

  Reality, Ideas, America

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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.

  Sergio Leone

  Character, Half, Humans

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• It's very difficult to be original.

  Sergio Leone

  Difficult, Originals

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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.

  Sergio Leone

  Men, Interesting, Sublime

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• Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.

  Sergio Leone

  Death, Suicide, Killers

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• I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I see, belong to lots of parts of the world. Not just America.

  Sergio Leone

  Thinking, America, World

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Even when I read a book, if the book leaves me the possibility of finding certain solutions or working on my own toward a solution, I prefer that much more than if the book fills me with the answers, gives them to me directly.

  Sergio Leone

  Book, Giving, Answers

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• Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.

  Sergio Leone

  Home, Read Between The Lines, Cinema

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet.

  Sergio Leone

  Wonderful, Found, Humans

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• There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.

  Sergio Leone

  Thinking, Directors

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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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.

  Sergio Leone

  Frustrated, Cinema, Elements

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• It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.

  Sergio Leone

  Cameras, Sides, Easy

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• The world is in America. In Italy is only Italy. France is full of France. Germany is full of Germany. In a continent that contains the entire world, contradictions are, of course, constantly arising.

  Sergio Leone

  America, Germany, World

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

  Sergio Leone

  Eye, America, Scary

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• Just go to Disneyland. You have the impact of how the Americans think, how they dream, what they desire, how they have a good time, what they prefer. I associate this with young people. But many times I think this infantile quality is much better than the false, incomplete concept of adulthood.

  Sergio Leone

  Dream, Thinking, Impact

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• I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

  Sergio Leone

  Ideas, Antiques, Fishes

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• I've seen films that have made as much as $100, $200 million, but they're not films. They're images. They're flashes. They're many beautiful images, lots of things to look at. They capture you. But it's not a film. It's not something that involves you in a story. They go to cinema now to be blown away by the effects.

  Sergio Leone

  Beautiful, Cinema, Looks

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.

  Sergio Leone

  Want, Film, Said

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.

  Sergio Leone

  Moving, Once Upon A Time, West

  Interview with Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. December 28, 2012.

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