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

Funny Humorous Movie

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. The myth is everything.

Different Important Real

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, many times, it is more important a note or an orchestration than a line said.

Important Lines Notes

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 complete work.

Character Looks Thinking

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

Cinema Reading Vices

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

Always Believe Cinema Imagination

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 by the philosophers, the vagabonds, the dispersed of this earth, long before the Spanish ships got there. Those whom we call Americans have only rented it for a time. If they behave badly, we can discover another 'America'. The contract can be canceled at any time.

America Ideas Reality

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 all human beings are.

Character Half Humans

It's very difficult to be original.

Difficult Originals

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 of the world. Not just America.

America Thinking World

Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.

Cinema Home Read Between The Lines

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

Death Killers Suicide

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 demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

Interesting Men Sublime

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

Found Humans Wonderful

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

Directors Thinking

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 working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.

Cinema Elements Frustrated

I have to be honest about one thing. When I want to America, no on asked me how I was. Everyone always asked me, "How much do you make?"

America Honest Want

It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.

Cameras Easy Sides

I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

Antiques Fishes Ideas

When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

Listening Men Socialism