Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."

When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women had enormous weight in America.

I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.

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.

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

I didn't want [actress] just to be a woman standing at the window, waving hello and goodbye to men as they came and went in the world that they were struggling through. I wanted her to have a true function.

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