Sergio Leone Quotes

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

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.

When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

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.

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.

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

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.

I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

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?"

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