I was born with this bow tie made of celluloid on my collar.

The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation that somebody who wants to understand America doesn't really need to visit it much.

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet.

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

We're talking a very cultivated people, but I found as cultivated as they were, they were uninformed about the personages who weren't American. They knew everything about America, but much less about other countries.

I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters.