I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

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.

Daydream. Because you can't accomplish what you've never fully imagined.

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.

I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future.

Cancers of all types among women are increasing

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.

If you've never woken up from a car accident to discover that your wife is dead and you're an animated, rotting corpse, then you probably wouldn't understand.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.