All I want is to enter my house justified.

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.

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

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.

Retirement is not in my vocabulary.

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

Sometimes broken things deserve to be repaired.

Donald Trump thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it's real.

When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

The Lord continues to empty us in order to teach us to lay aside all self-reliance, that we may cling to Christ alone.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.