America Quote by Sergio Leone

I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I see, belong…

— Sergio Leone

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

— Patrick deWitt

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

— Tobin Bell

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

— Tom Selleck

“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

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

— John Hillcoat

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

— Ti West

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

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

— Andre Bazin

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

— Kiefer Sutherland

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

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

— Shahrukh Khan