I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

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.

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin gods who stand behind a tin star or ten cents' worth of righteous anger and justify their skill and slaughter with a self-conscious grin or a minute's worth of bad philosophy.

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

I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.