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Sergio Leone Biography

Sergio Leone (Italian: [ˈsɛrdʒo leˈoːne]; 3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, credited as the inventor of the "Spaghetti Western" genre.

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America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.

America, Six Months, Exciting, Completely, Months

I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.

America, Innovation, Innovations, People, Sensation

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

Distraction, Film, Films, Payed, Producing

We're talking a very cultivated people, but I found as cultivated as they were, they were uninformed about the personages who weren't American. They knew everything about America, but much less about other countries.

America, Country, Cultivated, Everything, Personages, Talking

Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters. "

Virginia, Example, Lovers, Woolf, Lover

It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

Cinema, Difficult, Expression, Filmmaking, Solicitations, Talking

I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

Antique, Antiques, Fishes, Ideas, Old

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.

Italian, Thinking, Worry, Become, Done

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.

America, Constantly, Contradictions, Desire, Interesting

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.

Beings, Character, Good, Half, Humans, Writer

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.

Anymore, Film, Like, Oscars, Win, Winning

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?"

America, Want, Honest, Asked

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

Everything, Film, Hard, Said, Want

As Claude LeLouche said, his favorite American director is Sergio Leone. Not because I would be American, but because I was dealing with subject matter that an American could have just as easily dealt with.

Claude, Directors, Easily, Leone, Matter, Would Be

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

Appeared, Bounty, Death, Killers, Suicide, Value

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.

Central, Claudia, Moving, Once Upon A Time, West, Whole

[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.

Cinema, Issues, Order, People

I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters.

Character, Characters, Enter, Feelings, Give, Giving

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

Actress, Father, Filmmakers, Mother, Son

All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.

Cinema, Everything, Mets, People, Subject

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