If You Don't Like My Movies, Don't

In Each Of My Characters There Is A Little Of Me. Not Strictly Autobiographical But A Little Piece Of My Soul.

If You Make A Film Normally It's All Right, The Distributors Are Helpful And Cooperative. But If You Make A Film That's A Little Stange, A Little Bizarre, Then All The Time It's A Struggle With Them.

I Think The Camera Was Always My Obsession, The Camera Movements. Because For Me It's The Most Important Thing In The Move, The Camera, Because Without The Camera, Film Is Just A Stage Or Television - Nothing.

I First Came To Cinema As A Passionate Filmgoer, When I Was A Child. Then, When I Was A Very Young Man, I Became A Film Critic Precisely Because Of My Knowledge Of Cinema. I Did Better Than Others Because Of This. Then I Moved On To Screenwriting. I Wrote A Film With Sergio Leone, 'once Upon A Time In The West.' And Then I Moved To Directing.

This Is My Life - I Want To Tell Stories. There Is Something Huge Inside Me That Pushes Me To Tell Stories, And Tell Stories For An Audience And Everybody.