Over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And LIBERTARIANS had more of it. Because what I really believe is, let's spend a little more time leaving everybody alone.

When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.

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

To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.

Opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one.

Fate pulls you in different directions

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.