I think politics should be expressed in this way and not in other ways. And not just politics - sentiments, even certain states of being.

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.

I try to be a positive light in this cold dark world... if only with a few words from deep within my heart, I try

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

Disrobe both conformity and rebellion to find true independence.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

We are the breakers of our own hearts

It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.

What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.

I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.

A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?