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

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

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

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

I consciously chose a person like the bounty killer [of the Fistful trilogy] because he was the street sweeper of the desert, a man who put his life at risk exclusively for the money. I'm not saying that he went against the law, but he put himself within the wings of the law only when it was something that he could profit by.

When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.

All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.