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

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.

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

DEATH is big business.Thank god for capitalism.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

How am I ever going to find the strength to leave him?

Sometimes people don’t want the truth. Sometimes the truth is worse than a lie.

We all live with the objective of being happy our lives are all different and yet the same.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.