Enough Quote by Christopher Dawson

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

— Tom Selleck

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

— Tobin Bell

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies…

— Elizabeth Crook

“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

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're…

— Tom Selleck

I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a…

— Barry Corbin

Hollywood was a fantasy world in more ways than one.

— Maureen O'Sullivan

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but…

— Sergio Leone

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

I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.

— Paul Dano

The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of the '20s…

— David Milch

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

— Patrick deWitt