I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.

When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film.

I've always felt that music is more expressive than dialogue. I've always said that my best dialogue and screenwriter is Ennio Morricone. Because, many times, it is more important a note or an orchestration than a line said.

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

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

I had never thought of making a western even as I was making it.

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