When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.

I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.