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.

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.

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

I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.