It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.

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

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.

When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women had enormous weight in America.

I must be honest and say that I was under the fascination of films. I was fascinated by all films, even the words of them. If I was to do a more-precise analysis of the situation, I have to admit that I was more entertained by the bad films than the good ones. Because when something is beautiful, it is there; it is finished; it is done. It doesn't have to be touched or be worked upon.

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

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