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

I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.

The world is in America. In Italy is only Italy. France is full of France. Germany is full of Germany. In a continent that contains the entire world, contradictions are, of course, constantly arising.

It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas.

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 there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.