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

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.

I think, to go to the bottom of it all, that the films I have made and my kind of film-making is a hybrid type of film-making - in that it isn't American, it isn't Italian.

I realized than an author cannot also be a producer.

I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.

Just go to Disneyland. You have the impact of how the Americans think, how they dream, what they desire, how they have a good time, what they prefer. I associate this with young people. But many times I think this infantile quality is much better than the false, incomplete concept of adulthood.

I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.