Challenges Quote by Roger Ebert

There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how relevant one…

— James Mangold

It's a Samurai story [47 ronin], so if we change too much Japanese audiences will have strong against feelings to the film. It's not good.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the…

— Edward Zwick

This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is…

— Caroline Lawrence

A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and…

— Stan Sakai

I don't believe in making movies to cater to a foreign audience. You never know what the reaction is going to be anyhow. At…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like…

— Alexander Payne

I have always thought of films as stories for the world.

— John Hillcoat

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 there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

— Tom Selleck

I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them.

— Heath Ledger