Westerns Quotes · Page 4

I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.

— David Mackenzie

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

— Quentin Tarantino

I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

— Patrick deWitt

In most Westerns, you know, people are shooting off guns all the time until you don't even notice it anymore.

— George Stevens

Nobody wants to see a bland period western. Who wants to see a cowboy carrying a purse?

— Robert Fuller

I went East to become an actor and where do I end up? Being a cowboy in a Western.

— Joe Don Baker

It seemed like whenever a Western was going to get made, it came my way.

— Sam Elliott

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.

— Barry Pepper

I've always seen in Westerns it described or it's shown very vaguely, but I wanted this - I want us to show…

— Quentin Tarantino

I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot…

— Creed Bratton

I got to be in a western, which was the best fun ever. It's one of those boxes you tick. I've wanted…

— Douglas Henshall

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western.…

— Robert Duvall

I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there's ever been.…

— Ray Winstone

“Riding a bull must be a bit like flying an ultralight. You get up there and have an exhilarating ride, but then…

— Susan Spence

Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding…

— Ricky Schroder

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a…

— Clint Eastwood

But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in…

— John Wayne

Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do…

— Clint Eastwood

“Before the end of the day there will take place what became known as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral … All…

— Tom Clavin

There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different…

— Quentin Tarantino

“A cavalry of sweaty but righteous blond gods chased pesky, unkempt people across an annoyingly leaky Mexican border. A grimy cowboy with…

— Ellen Meloy

Stagecoach is really my first Western-Western, the whole horses and gunplay. It was really fun. We shot it fast, too. We got…

— Judd Nelson

The four movies I can remember seeing as a kid were 'The Elephant Man,' 'The Magnificent Seven,' 'The Good, The Bad and…

— Casey Affleck

I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It…

— Sergio Leone

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

— Bruce Campbell

Westerns are cool, man. I'm big on Westerns. I just love the grittiness.

— Ramon Rodriguez

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

— Keith Carradine

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do…

— Robert Duvall

I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.

— Tobin Bell

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

— Robert Rankin

I would love to do a Western someday. Every time I watch any of them, I'm so envious.

— Sarah Clarke

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

— Aaron Eckhart

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

— John Carpenter

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

— Bruce Boxleitner

My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films.

— Hideo Kojima

I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.

— Rob Zombie

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

— Kevin Costner

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

— Kiefer Sutherland

There's something very truthful about American brutality, spirit and myth-making that is so present in the great westerns.

— Fred Hechinger

In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan