I consciously chose a person like the bounty killer [of the Fistful trilogy] because he was the street sweeper of the desert, a man who put his life at risk exclusively for the money. I'm not saying that he went against the law, but he put himself within the wings of the law only when it was something that he could profit by.

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

It's very difficult to be original.

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

Because the life that I live - the life that we all live - is filtered through [one's own] experience. It isn't necessarily optimistic when you look at the political phenomena, the different things that are going on in the world.

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.

Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.