Westerns Quotes · Page 3

The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.

— Sergio Aragones

What defines a Western? I've probably seen three my whole life.

— Chloe Zhao

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

— Justin Lin

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

— Edward Norton

I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.

— Winona Ryder

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

— Takashi Miike

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

— Carroll Baker

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

— Martin Landau

There are very few Westerns that have ever made really giant money.

— Sydney Pollack

I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

— Tom Selleck

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

— John Wayne

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

— Ti West

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

— Roy Rogers

The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it.…

— Kevin Costner

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

— Seth MacFarlane

“I stared at him for a moment, sifting through everything he’d just said and trying to find an appropriate response, but the…

— Nicole Jacquelyn

I eternally fight internal battles about developing things that only appeal to the East Coast and the West Coast. For years I've…

— Edward Allen Bernero

I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it.…

— Patrick deWitt

From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and…

— Eli Wallach

It could have been extremely boring to write musical scores for only westerns of horror films. It was really exciting for me…

— Ennio Morricone

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just…

— Martin Scorsese

“But I can’t help but long for a real return to the Western. Westerns are true Americana. They tell of the struggles…

— Clayton Moore

History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp -…

— Edward M. Lerner

I did a Coca-Cola commercial when I was about two and a half years old, and then me and my family were…

— Jesse Plemons

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…

— Keith Carradine

“It's hard to imagine, seeing how crowded the sky looks tonight, how far away one star is from another. Like, people, really.…

— Kathleen Kent

It's fun for women to be in a Western. And I had to learn how to handle the guns. I would walk…

— Penelope Cruz

The cool thing about making a Western is that people want to be in them. You rarely get the opportunity. With horror…

— Timothy West

There's another aspect about the Seventies. Blazing Saddles, as wonderful as it was, sort of hurt the Western. It made such fun…

— Quentin Tarantino

Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy.

— Randolph Scott

I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.

— Sergio Leone

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.

— Tom Selleck

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

— Daniel Craig

“All of my friends want to be in my books, but no one wants to die...ummm...I write westerns...everyone dies.”

— Barry Andrew Chambers

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

— Morgan Freeman

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

— Bill Pullman

I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.

— Sam Peckinpah

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

— Sam Peckinpah

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

— Jensen Ackles

When I was 12, I decided I was only going to watch Westerns for a few months.

— Alden Ehrenreich