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

The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.

I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.

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.

I realized than an author cannot also be a producer.

Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.

If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.