The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

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.

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

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.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.

The better your base is, and the more you know from experience, the better off you'll be when you try and make the big move.

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.