Top 252 Westerns Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.

We talked to Sergei Bodrov who did "Mongel" who I thought was incredible. There was a lot of people who've done a lot of things that I really appreciate and then you go back to the Italian spaghetti westerns that our spaghetti westerns were based off of so I've seen everything.

I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.

What Westerns did was to take a world and mythologise it.

I do love Westerns. But, in a way, traditional Westerns, for me, have been hard to love viscerally and personally.

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.

I am inspired by both Japanese Samurai films, in particular the films of Kurosawa, and how they share the spirit of American Westerns, with the influences running in both directions, and including the 'Spaghetti Westerns' and films of Sam Peckinpah.

I love Westerns. They're a unique creation of American mythology.

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.

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 deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.

I grew up watching Westerns.

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

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

I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, 'I like Westerns.'

Westerns are cool, man. I'm big on Westerns. I just love the grittiness.

I've always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, and they mainly took place in the West that was changing.

You don't get to make Westerns every day.

There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies.

I have always loved westerns... supernatural westerns in particular. One of my first professional short story sales was a horror/western story. It wasn't so great, though, so I'm glad the magazine folded before it saw print.

When I was 12, I decided I was only going to watch Westerns for a few months.

You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.

Even 'Bonanza' was derivative of other westerns and, of course, other westerns were derivative of 'Bonanza.'

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

There's another aspect about the Seventies. Blazing Saddles, as wonderful as it was, sort of hurt the Western. It made such fun of them, that you almost couldn't take them seriously from that point on. That's why only Westerns that had the stink of Watergate or Vietnam could be taken seriously. There were so few Westerns made since then, from the Eighties on, that the few directors who did were so pleased with themselves and so happy to have the opportunity that they got lost in visuals, they got lost in the vistas and the pretty scenery.

When I came in, Westerns were the big thing, so I did horse falls, transfers, bulldogs, big fights. That's where you could really shine if you were really good at it. But then all the Westerns stopped, and I was capable of doing car stunts, motorcycle stunts and high falls. I could do it all.

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

I knew that I was going to do Westerns. I like 'em.

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

I used to love American Westerns, growing up in Germany.

Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.

I handle my emotional pain with music and old movies, preferably Westerns.

I wrote 'The Searcher' because I love westerns, and they've fallen out of fashion.

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

I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I've worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them.

There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different decades. The '50s Westerns very much put forth an Eisenhower idea of America, whereas the Westerns of the '70s were very cynical about America.

I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.

I love Westerns!

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

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

I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.

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

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

I am not a fan of westerns particularly.

If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

There are very few Westerns that have ever made really giant money.

I actually don't like westerns much. I like good westerns, but it isn't my preferred genre. There are all kinds of westerns: acid westerns, '70s westerns, Nicholas Ray's neurotic westerns. The ones I tend to like are nutso westerns.

The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal, but in westerns it usually plays out on a big stage.

I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.

I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people like Katharine Hepburn, I got further away from the thing I really liked to do.

I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns.