I've always been a big Western fan.

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

— Ridley Scott

I watched Westerns from the time I was a girl. My dad was a big Western fan. I always loved Clint Eastwood movies and…

— Kimberly Elise

So we went off and made this movie ["Jim Younger"], and I've gotta tell ya, it's as much fun as I've ever had making…

— Keith Carradine

I actually thought that the idea of doing a World War II movie in the guise of a spaghetti western would just be an…

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Tom Selleck

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

— Sam Peckinpah

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western.…

— Sergio Aragones

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

— Kiefer Sutherland

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has…

— Lawrence Kasdan

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

— Lawrence Kasdan

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

— Howard Hawks

Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own…

— Ridley Scott

I tend to lean more towards the Westerns of the 40s and 50s as opposed to the 60s and 70s. They get a little…

— Seth MacFarlane

I wanted to have fun after 'Annapolis,' and make a Western.

— Justin Lin

In a Western, you don't over-explain.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan