When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

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.

America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.

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

I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director.

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

When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.