Westerns Quotes

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.
Clint Eastwood

Love, Time, Bad

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
Quentin Tarantino

Big, Influence, Spaghetti

I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.
Jeff Bridges

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Arthur C. Clarke

Science, Read, Stories

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.
Martin Scorsese

Another, Film, Maybe

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

Why, Used, Asking

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.
Shia LaBeouf

Movies, Wanted, Start

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.
Stephen Fry

Love, Time, Great

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.
Emma Thompson

Father, High, Stranger

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
Daniel Craig

Good, Moral, Guy

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
Robert Duvall

Wisdom, Two, Young

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.
Christian Bale

Thinking, Two, After

When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.
Jason Reitman

Hope, Small, Young

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.
Hugh Mackay

Violence, Easy, Books

The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
Samuel L. Jackson

Good, Finding, Missed

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
Aaron Eckhart

Important, Code, Symbolism

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.
Mark Ruffalo

Nobody, Anymore, Western

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 kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.
Lawrence Kasdan

Important, Tell, Story

I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.
Rob Zombie

Love, Movies, Frank

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.
Jensen Ackles

Character, Comedy, Action

I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.
Giancarlo Esposito

Big, Period, Fan

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.
Melissa Rosenberg

Money, Great, Fear

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.
Eli Wallach

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

Love, Fashion, Again

'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.
Lea Thompson

Love, Fun, Idea

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.
Patrick Warburton

Love, Wanted, Western

Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.
Ricky Schroder

Fun, Lost, Wish

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.
Ricky Schroder

Movies, Trying, Culture

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

Thought, Last, Growing

I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.
John Carpenter

Work, Business, Movies

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