You can do as much diligence as possible before you go somewhere to try to protect yourself and the people around you.
But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.
Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.
She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?
Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.
There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.
Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.
I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result.
An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here [Rome] with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema. ' "
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.