I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.

I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it. A Fistful of Dollars was a great instinct for me, because here I was, a guy who's doing Rawhide.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

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.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad.

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.