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

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

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

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

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

It's been fifteen years since I've killed a man. At least a man against whom I held a grudge. — L.J. Martin

From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then. — Eli Wallach

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know ... It's just good entertainment. — Tom Selleck

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

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

Riding a bull must be a bit like flying an ultralight. You get up there and have an exhilarating ride, but then you still have to get down. — Susan Spence

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

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

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

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

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad! — Kara Walker

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

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

Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns. — Tab Hunter

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

I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema. — Alexander Payne

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy. — Morgan Freeman

After 'Baby Doll,' I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from 'Baby Doll.' — Carroll Baker

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

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

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

father loved to watch old westerns and the evening news, — Nicholas Sparks

I never dreamed I would do Westerns. — Eli Wallach

I am not a fan of westerns particularly. — Patrice Leconte

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world. — Gore Verbinski

Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape. — Ridley Scott

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

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

I think that most of the best movies made in America in the 20th century were crime dramas, screwball comedies and westerns. — Terry Teachout

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

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business. — John Wayne

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

The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it. — Patrick DeWitt

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

You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you. — Charles Portis

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids. — Dorothy Malone

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West. — Ken Curtis

All of my friends want to be in my books, but no one wants to die ... ummm ... I write westerns ... everyone dies. — Barry Andrew Chambers

War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided. — Charlotte Lamb

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

My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films. — Hideo Kojima

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films. — Mel Brooks

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

Westerns were all daddy liked to watch. Give me some Clint Eastwood, some Charles Bronson, and I was a happy girl. It was our father-daughter bonding. — Melissa Marr

Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire. — Larry McMurtry

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago. — Glenn Ford

Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work. — Gary Paulsen

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

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy. — Roger Ebert

Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns. — Ridley Scott

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. — John Landis

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

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

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

Westerns have often been considered the ugly stepchild of genre writing... — Johnny D. Boggs

I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director. — Quentin Tarantino

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. — Randolph Scott

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl. — Gary Cooper

When I was putting the 'Best of Hollywood' book together, I sat down and added up just the list of Westerns I've done, and it came to well over 200. — James Best

By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns. — Gil Kane

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

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows. — James Arness

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

You know, Alundra Blayze, with her looks could star in TV westerns ... if she had two more legs. — Jerry Lawler

I love Westerns! — Barry Corbin

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

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

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

Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue when you hit the right note. — Kevin Costner

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns. — Moe Howard

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns. — Harry Dean Stanton

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse. — William Wyler

The Wild West didn't have much in the way of forensics; when you saw the bullet hole you'd say, 'That's prob'ly what kilt 'im. — P.K. Vandcast