It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

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.

If a director takes the time to document - to step back to observe - I think it I more honest. Because it has to be the public that makes the conclusions and who, possibly, resolves the situation.

It's natural to me that someone who loved that type of music or that type of spectacle would copy it, to do something, a video. It seems the most natural thing in the world to me.

The first must that any director has is to not force his public.

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.