Westerns Quotes

I'd love to do a Western.

— Clive Owen

I love Westerns!

— Barry Corbin

When in doubt, make a western.

— John Ford

I grew up watching Westerns.

— Anthony Hemingway

I'd like to be in a Western.

— John Cho

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

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I've always wanted to do a Western.

— Karl Urban

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

— Harry Dean Stanton

I knew that I was going to do Westerns. I like 'em.

— Luke Perry

“father loved to watch old westerns and the evening news,”

— Nicholas Sparks

I am not a fan of westerns particularly.

— Patrice Leconte

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

— Mel Brooks

I always wanted to do a Western.

— Pierce Brosnan

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

“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

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

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

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

— Lawrence Kasdan

I'm not a great horse person, but I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells,…

— Mary Steenburgen

“I love the idea of westerns. It’s a simple dynamic: a man or woman overcoming hardship to carve out a meaningful life…

— Darrell Pitt

I liked Westerns for two reasons: First, it took the actor outside. They were all very physical at that time and not…

— DeForest Kelley

The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal…

— Patrick deWitt

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can…

— Lawrence Kasdan

Westerns aren't about the gunfight, even though it has to be there at one point. It's not what they're about, at least…

— Kevin Costner

If I could just make Westerns for the rest of my life, that's all I would do. It's my favorite movie to…

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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

— Quentin Tarantino

Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre…

— Ethan Coen

The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I heard about 'Into the West,' and…

— Matthew Settle

If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the…

— Lance Henriksen

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

— Mary Steenburgen

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 never dreamed I would do Westerns

— Eli Wallach

You can't go wrong with a Western. I made a string of them.

— Fred MacMurray

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

— Richard Jenkins