I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet.

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.

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

Christ Jesus is full of compassion.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

Prayerful life

I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles.

My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.

Everyone's life is a train wreck. Your life happens to be a high-class train wreck.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.