My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

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 natural world sustains me and fills me with joy.

Surrounded by enemies, surrounded by evil, surrounded by darkness, injustice......."don't be afraid, those who are with us are more than those who are with them"2 Kings 6:16

i am not a jealous person, but when i am with you, the thought of someone elsepulling your attention away from mekills me a little insideeach time.

He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

See the truth. Feel the truth. Be the truth.

Stress is just for those who have not yet tried and trusted in God. -178

The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.

I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.

Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.