I've always done just pretty much what I wanted to do. I…

The Westerns have probably affected me more than any one thing, Western-related material. I love Westerns.

— Joe R. Lansdale

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

— Kiefer Sutherland

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype…

— Ricky Schroder

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

I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the…

— Bailey Chase

The first Westerns I saw as a child were those little 8-mm. home movies put out by Castle Films.

— Bill Pullman

The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal,…

— Elizabeth Crook

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

“That era provided a profusion of wonderful actors and actresses to admire—and not always the ones remembered by posterity. Take Joel McCrea, for instance,…

— Robert Wagner

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

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They…

— John Wayne