The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people can feel that. That's what makes people feel comfortable. It is important to appear confident with clients, but it is more important to not be afraid to act like a fool, have fun, laugh and shake your hips to get people comfortable.

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

I consciously chose a person like the bounty killer [of the Fistful trilogy] because he was the street sweeper of the desert, a man who put his life at risk exclusively for the money. I'm not saying that he went against the law, but he put himself within the wings of the law only when it was something that he could profit by.

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

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

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.

It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.