Quentin Tarantino Quotes

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

It's hard not to think of Jack Ford when you're making a Western. Hard not to think of him when you're making any picture.

I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

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

I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too.

Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

I know I'd like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I'll write it.

'Extreme Prejudice' is the last of the Mohicans. I don't think we'll ever see a film made like that again.

I'm not sitting around saying, 'Man, I'd really love to direct a western.' That's just not something I'm probably going to do, mostly because I'm allergic to horses.

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

I always wanted to make movies.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

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

Lionsgate and Lorenzo di Bonaventura saw my Korean Western-style film, 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' and probably felt that I would be right for 'The Last Stand,' which could be classified as a modern Western.

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.

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

I loved working with Peter Weir. I think he's one of the greats and will be remembered as one of the greats.

If I tried to somehow wrap my head around the fact that Francis Ford Coppola directed my first movie, there's never a slot into which that ever fits in your mind.

I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'

I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies.

Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.