Sergio Leone Quotes

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.

The spaghetti Western genre is definitely one of favorites.

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.

One hundred percent, I mean, many of the Sergio Leone movies were with Clint Eastwood, and that's what it is.

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

'Once Upon a Time in the West' is one of my favorite films.

In general, we like to shoot Breaking Bad like a modern day Western, and Sergio Leone is one of my all-time favorite directors.

Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.

I was always a fan of the great old spaghetti Westerns, the Sergio Leone films. But the one that always sticks with me, that I just thought was brilliant and perfect is "Cat Ballou." Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou."

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

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.

There were many, many other 'Django' films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one 'Django.'

It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.

But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.

I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.

A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

The funny thing about my films is that you can make little piles of them. You could make little piles of the movie that were family movies, you could make a little art movie pile, you could make a little action movie pile.

And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

For me, 'Amy' is a very dark film about love.

I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.

'Once Upon a Time in the West' is a great movie.

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.