Sergio Leone famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Believe #Cinema #Three
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
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 #World
The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.
-- Sergio Leone

#Dream #Imagination #Function
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
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 #Elements #Cinema
The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people can feel that. That's what makes people feel comfortable. It is important to appear confident with clients, but it is more important to not be afraid to act like a fool, have fun, laugh and shake your hips to get people comfortable.
-- Sergio Leone

#Photography #Fun #Nice
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
-- Sergio Leone

#Dream #Real #America
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 #Way
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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