Character Quote by Tom Selleck

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

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any…

— Lawrence Kasdan

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

— Ti West

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

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

— Tobin Bell

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

Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to…

— Ti West

I'm a fan of the western genre. When I see a character actor, I see a whole movie behind a scene before and after.…

— Gore Verbinski

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

— Tom Selleck

The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I heard about 'Into the West,' and what I…

— Matthew Settle

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