I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.

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.

A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.

A women loves you not for the things you do for her, but for the things she does for you.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it