Westerns Quotes · Page 3

Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.

— Ridley Scott

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

— Judd Nelson

I used to love American Westerns, growing up in Germany.

— Ramin Djawadi

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

— Patrick deWitt

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

— Lawrence Kasdan

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

— Jacques Delors

I like westerns; I like the people I work with and I like working outdoors.

— Robert Fuller

I loved spaghetti westerns but besides these pure entertainment movies, there was also something different.

— Takashi Miike

Years ago on TV, I played people like Doc Holliday and Jesse James on Westerns.

— Martin Landau

After 'Baby Doll,' I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from 'Baby Doll.'

— Carroll Baker

I do love Westerns. But, in a way, traditional Westerns, for me, have been hard to love viscerally and personally.

— Lisa Joy

I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.

— Ridley Scott

Star Trek' ushered in the end of the Westerns. Then the canvas switched to the sci-fi canvas.

— John de Lancie

I'm really interested in experimental works, so the people that I admired the most was Dziga Vertov, Sergey Eisenstein, people from the…

— Babette Mangolte

“The Wild West didn't have much in the way of forensics; when you saw the bullet hole you'd say, 'That's prob'ly what…

— P.K. Vandcast

I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta,…

— Franco Nero

That's how it works in Westerns: the hero is minding his own business and trying to make a living, but he does…

— Mike Colter

The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens…

— Jean Cocteau

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is…

— Tom Selleck

I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and…

— Anson Mount

There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up…

— Alec Sulkin

I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp…

— Elmore Leonard

I ride really well and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.…

— Lance Henriksen

I was rather shaken by all the green trees. I always am. It gets me. I don't want to be funny about…

— Martin Scorsese

I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I…

— Mary Steenburgen

“It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench…

— John Williams

When I came in, Westerns were the big thing, so I did horse falls, transfers, bulldogs, big fights. That's where you could…

— Hal Needham

Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is…

— Kiefer Sutherland

The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you…

— Clint Eastwood

“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.”

— Gerald W. Haslam

Westerns give people a chance to see wide-open spaces and life before technology took over.

— Bill Pullman

They killed off variety shows and they killed off Westerns by having too many of the same thing.

— Mike Connors

Even 'Bonanza' was derivative of other westerns and, of course, other westerns were derivative of 'Bonanza.'

— Lorne Greene

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

— Gary Cooper

Cowboy movies aren't supposed to be in vogue. I still like them. You know, I'm still out there pitching the hell out…

— Kevin Costner

“You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who…

— Charles Portis

All stories boil down to good vs. evil, and that's what the archetypal American Western was.

— W. Earl Brown

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

— George Carlin

I grew up with Westerns and it's just always something I've wanted to do.

— Ti West

“It was a sight to make Zane Grey reach for his ballpoint, or Sergio Leone send out for another fifty foot of…

— Robert Rankin