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

It Irritated Me That My Fans Kept Wanting Me To Retread Old Ground.

Paradise Is Too Perfect For Humanity.

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.

I Like Films To Have Something Inside, I Don't Mean A Message, I Mean Something From The Soul.

The Process Of Writing And Directing Drives You To Such Extremes That It's Natural To Feel An Affinity With Insanity. I Approach That Madness As Something Dangerous, And I'm Afraid, But Also I Want To Go To It, To See What's There, To Embrace It. I Don't Know Why, But I'm Drawn.