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Sergio Leone Quotes: My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].
         

My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].


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In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.



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



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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.



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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.



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



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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.



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.

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.



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



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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.





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