I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.

When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

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

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. The myth is everything.

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 complete work.

Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.

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 all human beings are.

You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.

There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

The experiences you get from failures early in life, will carry you for the rest of your life.

The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

We talk often about being in a media-saturated society, and we are surrounded by image streams. But it's nihilistic. There's a real randomness to all of it.

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

Sports have a way of touching people.

Beingness is just joy.

I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.