I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.

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.

Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

All I want is to enter my house justified.

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.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

This world has need of song and sword.

The body is an art to give pleasure to the soul

I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we?

I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.

To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.

The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love

The revolutionary simpleton is everywhere.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.