When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more com….

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination..

It's very difficult to be original..

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 ….

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa..

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

The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people can feel that. Tha….

Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as….

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

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, ma….

You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the cen….

When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm ….

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

There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director..

I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas..

It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said..

I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet..

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

I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I see, belong to lots of parts o….

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. T….

Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to r….