I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

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.

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.

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.

The warrior of the night is a wondrous soul.

To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married.

I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.

I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

When you break life down, it's about 100% time management.

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.

The tip no jewel needs to wear: The tip is jewel of the ear.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.