20th century Quote by Dwight Yoakam

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

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

— Ti West

Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time,…

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Tobin Bell

So there's that change of general consciousness, and then there's this boom after the war, this expansion into the West. It was like the…

— Christine Jennings

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

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to…

— Christopher Dawson

As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little…

— Jung Chang

The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W. Murnau's masterpieces,…

— Guy Maddin

The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

— Tom Mix

We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just…

— Pauline Kael

In the '70s, with movies like 'Little Big Man,' westerns began to have a little different flavor, and I think casting people and filmmakers…

— Wes Studi