When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women had enormous weight in America.

There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.

Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.

I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.

The Jesuits use this kind of training, or, let's say it this way: The Jesuit General imposes this kind of structure; he encourages the young men to specialize. Because getting ten of them together, you have the best of everything. But this does not mean that this system is good for the Jesuits all over. They're all available to the cause.

I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.

I think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.