Sergio Leone Quotes

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

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

The spaghetti Western genre is definitely one of favorites.

Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America' is a brilliant movie. It's about four hours long, but it's so well done.

Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.

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

My discussion is one that has gone all the way from Fistful of Dollars through Once Upon a Time in America. But if you look closely at all these films, you find in them the same meanings, the same humor, the same point of view, and, also, the same pains.

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

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

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

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.

I can do a good John Wayne.

'Marmayogi' has a budget of Rs 110 crore, and I think only a gifted person like Kamal Haasan can do justice to such a film.

I've obviously always been aware of actor-oriented films, being an actor. Altman and Cassavetes were really strong. And then I realized their structures were quite fascinating, too.

For me, the story must be the hero of the film. The screen space or the length of my role does not matter.

There was a time when I thought Kim Novak was the sexiest woman in the world.

Movies tend to be dislocated and non-linear in their process.

For me, the character I play is most important.

I will die trying to do another 'Baahubali' kind of film. It's not a film that can be easily replicated. I believe only Rajamouli has the experience and vision to handle projects on such scale.

Well, I think it's important to have some kind of a narrative engine that pushes the audience through the landscape. But I love films like 'Apocalypse Now,' which is a very mood driven film. It's a magnetic force that's pulling them through.

It was fun playing with those jumps and the flashbacks in 'Zombieland,' but I don't think you need it to make a good movie. It's fun to just do a more straightforward one.

I think every character is important in every film - be it small, primary, or lead - because they are adding something to the story, taking it forward.

To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.

Vada Chennai' is a proper mainstream film, told in a sensible way.

I absolutely loved 'The New World.'