Sergio Leone Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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

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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.

• It's a little hard to avoid putting both war and politics in, in that they both come into the activity, but on their own. My basic idea is to do a great love film set in the hell of 1942. At that moment, hell was Leningrad. Underneath all this, of course, is a film about dissension between the two most important countries in the world, the United States and the Soviet Union. I think it is a must at this point to talk about cooperation instead of the rancor and hatred and competition between nations.

  Sergio Leone

  Country, War, Thinking

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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].

  Sergio Leone

  America, Once Upon A Time, Lasts

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

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

  Sergio Leone

  Want, Film, Said

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• I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.

  Sergio Leone

  America, Language, Film

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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.

  Sergio Leone

  Thinking, Brain, Balls

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• I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed, fast rhythm of commercials. It's not film making.

  Sergio Leone

  Thinking, People, Film

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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

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• When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film.

  Sergio Leone

  Film, Used, Catalyst

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• My discussion is one that has gone all the way from Fistful of Dollars through Once Upon a Time in America. But if you look closely at all these films, you find in them the same meanings, the same humor, the same point of view, and, also, the same pains.

  Sergio Leone

  Pain, Views, America

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

• I think, to go to the bottom of it all, that the films I have made and my kind of film-making is a hybrid type of film-making - in that it isn't American, it isn't Italian.

  Sergio Leone

  Italian, Thinking, Kind

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• There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.

  Sergio Leone

  America, Cinema, Stories

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• Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.

  Sergio Leone

  Film, Distraction

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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.

  Sergio Leone

  Way, Phantoms, Ghost

• The American public is a very specialized public. The reason it is taken as a realistic film is because inside the fable, I've put that kind of reality in. And it could easily be called, instead of Once Upon a Time in America, Once Upon a Time There Was a Certain Kind of Cinema. Because it was also an homage to cinema.

  Sergio Leone

  Taken, Reality, America

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

• I had more trouble than I had a sense of utility or satisfaction. But it served to occupy me and to keep me occupied in a field that I love - which was cinema - while I was waiting to realize the film that I wanted to do, which was Once Upon a Time in America, which took ten years of thinking and working to realize.

  Sergio Leone

  Thinking, Years, America

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

• An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here [Rome] with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema.' "

  Sergio Leone

  Taken, Italian, Men

  Interview with Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. September 1987.

• There's my pessimism. Because I didn't know yet that type of film is always going to become more extinct, that there won't be anymore. Because there will always be more films that win five Oscars like Terms of Endearment.

  Sergio Leone

  Winning, Oscars, Film

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

• As far as commercials were concerned, I did very few, and I did them only when they gave me carte blanche to them the way that I wanted to. And I did them as an exercise, because I, who do very long films, never thought I would be able to tell a story in 30 or 40 seconds - you come across a whole new system and manner of approaching a subject.

  Sergio Leone

  Exercise, Long, Would Be

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• I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.

  Sergio Leone

  War, Political, Want

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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.

  Sergio Leone

  Beautiful, Fascination, Analysis

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• 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

  People, Stories, Want

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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