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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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