- Quentin Tarantino: Of all the great Western directors, Corbucci created the most pitiless West that there was. The most pitiless, the most pessimistic, the most surrealistically grotesque, the most violent.
- Quentin Tarantino: There's nothing wrong with the label "second-best Spaghetti Western director after Leone," alright? I don't believe Ford is the greatest American Western director, but if you take that thought, alright, if you take that place, well, then who's the second? Is it Peckinpah? Is it Hawks? Is it Raoul Walsh? Is it Delmer Daves? Who is it? Who's number two? Alright? That's a dogfight. It's not a dogfight in Italy. Number two is fucking Corbucci.
- Sergio Corbucci: Each time, it's more difficult for me to find a new method of murder. That's why I hate Westerns.
- Interviewer: After this, Mr Corbucci, what films will you do?
- Sergio Corbucci: A Western, naturally.
- Ruggero Deodato: Bolognini taught me elegance, which helped me work on 1,700 adverts. It was thanks to the elegance that Bolognini taught me. Rossellini taught me how to tell stories. I can tell a story in 15 seconds. And I got all the cruelty from Sergio Corbucci. He was really cruel. I mean, the slicing off the ear, you know. But that's how he was. He was bloodthirsty. He did not give a damn.