It's very difficult to be original.

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.

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

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

Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.

Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are.

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.