When you hang a man, you better look at him.

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

I'm in the saddle every day playing a screwball. And then somebody comes along and says, "How would you like to go to Italy and Spain and do an Italian/Spanish/German co-production with an Italian director who's only directed one movie?" It wasn't like I was going there to be with Federico Fellini. But something was there, and I thought, Well, I loved this story when it was told by Akira Kurosawa; maybe this is a good idea. That's an instinctive moment. A Fistful of Dollars was made.

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously

You have to go with your instincts.