Quentin Tarantino Calls This Classic Clint Eastwood Trilogy "The Greatest Achievement in the History of Cinema"

Quentin Tarantino has made his love of Westerns no secret, and their influence can be seen throughout his own work in ways that are both obvious and subtle. It shouldn't be surprising that he has a strong affinity for Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" — A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly— which he's called "the greatest achievement in the history of cinema." That's pretty high praise, but it's deserving for a triptych of films that turned Clint Eastwood into a star and spawned the Spaghetti Western genre. “It’s the vision of a single director, Sergio Leone, throughout all the films," Tarantino said, "but the thing is, it does what no other trilogy has ever been able to do," which is successfully up the ante with each entry.