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.

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I see, belong to lots of parts of the world. Not just America.

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

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

I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed, fast rhythm of commercials. It's not film making.

I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.