It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

I had more trouble than I had a sense of utility or satisfaction. But it served to occupy me and to keep me occupied in a field that I love - which was cinema - while I was waiting to realize the film that I wanted to do, which was Once Upon a Time in America, which took ten years of thinking and working to realize.

I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.

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 realized than an author cannot also be a producer.

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.

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.