When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

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.

No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

I was France.

Everybody's funny if you love them.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

Prosperity lets goe the bridle.

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga.

For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.

People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.