Occupation: Film Director Birth: January 3, 1929 Death: April 30, 1989
I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America had already been invented ….
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams..
It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something..
I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time..
When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite..
The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people can feel that. Tha….
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..
I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet..
It's very difficult to be original..
Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared..
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 ….
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa..
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 ….
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….
There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director..
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….
It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said..
I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas..
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….
The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream..