Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

All I want is to enter my house justified.

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.

The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.