Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.

The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation that somebody who wants to understand America doesn't really need to visit it much.

I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

It's natural to me that someone who loved that type of music or that type of spectacle would copy it, to do something, a video. It seems the most natural thing in the world to me.