Westerns Quotes · Page 5

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

— David Mackenzie

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

— Richard Widmark

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

— Patrick deWitt

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

— Robert Fuller

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

— George Stevens

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

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— John Carpenter

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

— Aaron Eckhart

“The Wild West didn't have much in the way of forensics; when you saw the bullet hole you'd say, 'That's prob'ly what…

— P.K. Vandcast

I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta,…

— Franco Nero

That's how it works in Westerns: the hero is minding his own business and trying to make a living, but he does…

— Mike Colter

The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens…

— Jean Cocteau

I really want to do a Western. I want to be the dude who is riding horses and doing exciting things -…

— Margot Robbie

Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea…

— Lea Thompson

I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few.…

— Alexander Payne

There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And…

— Quentin Tarantino

It was quite frightening to be asked to write the music of a Western because there are so many things that you…

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— Sergio Leone

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

— Tom Clavin

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Casey Affleck

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

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

— Ellen Meloy

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

— Bruce Boxleitner

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

— Rob Zombie

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

— Kiefer Sutherland

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

— Kevin Costner

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

— Hideo Kojima

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

— Tobin Bell

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

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

Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was…

— Franco Nero

We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to…

— Kevin Costner

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch…

— Shia LaBeouf

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very…

— James Stewart

When people think of the West, it's easy to envision wagon trains, Buffalo Bill, the glory days of the Gold Rush. Cowboy…

— John Hickenlooper