I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.

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.

When Mikolay and Julia are not at school, they usually go exploring and adventuring. Mikolay’s and Julia’s mummies are both witches and are in charge of fixing things.

In order to discover your true self, you must first unconditionally fall in love with your imperfect life.

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

I will support the Republican nominee.

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

I'm not going to let other people set my limitations.

The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.

Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.