It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.

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.

Well sir, if things are real, they're there all the time"Are they?

...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.

You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

if you love me, love me now. dont hold yourself so badly until tears starts to mean nothing

Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.

I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

[My mom] had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer.

I think it's important to represent black women and our natural hair. Not wearing a weave is totally beautiful and acceptable.