There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.

I realized than an author cannot also be a producer.

Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."

It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.

I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.

My discussion is one that has gone all the way from Fistful of Dollars through Once Upon a Time in America. But if you look closely at all these films, you find in them the same meanings, the same humor, the same point of view, and, also, the same pains.

The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation that somebody who wants to understand America doesn't really need to visit it much.