4 Quotes by Estella Chung

We made a decision to only bring in material that had maintained its original look since used in his films. And we were lucky to find so much.

Sir Christopher first suggested the idea of this exhibit in 2000. We began working together on it in 2002 and worked on the project for three years, searching for material and oral histories from Leone's collaborators in Italy.

People who had worked with Leone kept mementos of his films props and costumes and they would pull them out of cupboards and closets and offer them to us for the exhibit. Making these movies was very important to them, even 40 years later.

A lot of fans are curious about the origins of the poncho. In the original script, he'd taken the poncho from a man taking a bath by the side of a river. But that scene was never shot. So we have the script explaining it all - in Italian.