I think politics should be expressed in this way and not in other ways. And not just politics - sentiments, even certain states of being.

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

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

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.

From Ennio [Morricone] I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He's never read a script of mine to compose the music, because many times he's composed the music before the script is ever written.

My discussion is one that has gone all the way from Fistful of Dollars through Once Upon a Time in America. But if you look closely at all these films, you find in them the same meanings, the same humor, the same point of view, and, also, the same pains.

Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.