If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered.

I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

Everyone has a first love and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano: I was a theatre actor.

could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.

Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of wordsand not one of them can save me.

I am the animal at the head of the pack. … I either get eaten, or I get the good grass.

I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.

I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.