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.

It's very difficult to be original.

You're never going to walk around fear. You're only going to walk through it. I have to do all those things I am afraid of, but I do them constantly renewing my mind.

This is who I am.A fighter.A guardian.Stronger than the Stormers.Stronger than Vane.Beyond all emotion.I don't give in to fear or pity or love. I'm the one in control.

The best way to be future-friendly is to be backwards compatible.

I am never afraid to serve the society. And if someone objects, I will send them a garland.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

I've always been a rough kid.

A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming.

The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

Workout. Lead a balanced life and try to have fun. It's what you make it.