Sergio Leone Quotes

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

It's such a commitment, making a film, you're really dedicated, it's your life, that's all you do for that period of your life.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a hobby, but it's one of the few hobbies that can actually become a career. You know what? I think it was my plan from when I was six that this is what I was going to do.

With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

I made movies with some very nice people, experienced actors.

Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'

I always knew I wanted to be in films, but I did not know exactly what I wanted to do.

I want people to see my movies.

I know these are my mandatory overs, but I would like to do films for as long as I breathe.

When I started trying to become a director, I started shooting low budget short films, 50-dollar music videos, making my own stuff. That eventually led to commercials.

The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.

I thought about making movies. It hit me when I was about 14, 15 years old.

It's one of the things I love about making films: the places I've got to travel that I would never have gone to before.

I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur is the word love, and it's love of a form, whereas professional implies something you do for money or for work.

I'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You can't get too emotionally invested, because again, you've got no control. There's going to be some huge film out that everyone goes to, and it probably won't be mine.

I honesty feel that each film has its own particular challenges.

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

Every film, obviously, everyone starts out aiming at making it good, and in the end, filmmaking is really fragile. Making a film is like building a house of cards on the deck of a speeding boat, or playing chess on train tracks. Every opportunity feels like that; it's the one artistic field that's unlike most of the others.

I never really feel like I'm sure a film's gonna happen until I'm maybe halfway through.

I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.