Sergio Leone Quotes

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away papers all day. You're creating with human emotions, so you do become very connected, so it is familial and romantic.

The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

I love making movies.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

I love independent film so much, and that's kind of where I made my mark.

When I made my first film, it was just an adventure. But after my first movie, I guess I got more of a feeling of what was happening around me.

I have always thought of films as stories for the world.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.

I make films about stories that I get interested in.

The only reason I came to L.A. in the first place was to tell stories and make movies. Whatever way you can do that - if you can do that - at whatever level, that's rewarding.

I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new.

Bollywood works as hard as regional cinema makers.

I want to do films that provide entertainment, but are also content-driven.

I've given 'Bin Roye' everything, and I'm hoping that people enjoy something different coming from Pakistani cinema.

Somebody has to make good artistic films. Somebody has to break open the doors so that others also will follow and make good and meaningful films.

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

I think moviemakers are dramatists.

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

I really enjoy working on small films.

I like making movies.

I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.