My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

- Sergio Leone

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more com…

- Sergio Leone

I've always felt that music is more expressive than dialogue. I've always said that my best dialogue and screenwriter is Ennio Morricone. Because, ma…

- Sergio Leone

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

- Sergio Leone

Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as…

- Sergio Leone

It's very difficult to be original.

- Sergio Leone

I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I see, belong to lots of parts o…

- Sergio Leone

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. T…

- Sergio Leone

Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to r…

- Sergio Leone