I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.

I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.

Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

All I want is to enter my house justified.

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

Sometimes thatwhich we fearstrengthens ourspirit and givesus a splashof hope.

In life your rewards come from the gifts you give to others.

When you're sick, you can never get your mind straight. But if you're passionate and sick, you'll find a way to write down something.

Life is merely one very long day that routinely gets dark to give people a sensible excuse to keep their eyes closed for 8 hours.

Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.

Be advised that there is no parking in Europe.

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

I had my children after eight years of marriage. It was a dream come true. I still pinch myself.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.