Concerned Quote by Glenn Ford

The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal,…

— Elizabeth Crook

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

— Roy Rogers

The Westerns have probably affected me more than any one thing, Western-related material. I love Westerns.

— Joe R. Lansdale

The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.

— Edward Norton

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

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

— Joe Dante

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

— Wallace Stegner

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

— Sam Peckinpah

I suppose that the Western has always been a kind of mold to which you could pour the concerns of the day, but have…

— Kevin Macdonald

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

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

— Bruce Boxleitner

I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.

— Ai Weiwei