It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

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.

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light.

Life is a practice. When you 'fail, ' you can immediately begin practicing again.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

No matter how many media for the dissemination of news are created, there is one rule that should never be broken:TELLTHE PEOPLE!

Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere.

I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service.

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.