Life Quote by Darrell Pitt

For me, Westerns are about how people are on a frontier, between society and the wild, and what being in that middle ground makes…

— Nia DaCosta

“I do not consider myself Western, but rather modern”

— Azar Nafisi

Traditional westerns typify some of the hardships men face: you have to be rugged, silent, stoic. It's a man against nature, against the world.

— Lisa Joy

“...very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had…

— Jane Goodall

“We have still not recovered, in the West, from that act of primary alienation from the source of our earthly lives. No matter how…

— Monica Sjöö

If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had -…

— James Stewart

“For there is another truth: to the extent that other cultures have failed to adopt at least major aspects of Western ways, they remain…

— Rodney Stark

“In western narrative, isolation is liberation, the elderly is inconvenient, apathy is aesthetic - invasion is ambition, exploitation is exploration, indifference is etiquette, appropriation…

— Abhijit Naskar

Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own…

— Ridley Scott

The West - the very words go straight to that place of the heart where Americans feel the spirit of pride in their western…

— John Wayne

I do love Westerns. But, in a way, traditional Westerns, for me, have been hard to love viscerally and personally.

— Lisa Joy

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

— Gore Verbinski