Gore Verbinski Quotes

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.

I think Westerns are always so great for clearing out the clutter and the ambiguities, and getting right to the broad strokes of that kind of situation.

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

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

I wanted to be a cowboy in cowboy movies.

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.

I've always loved a good Western.

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

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.

I love Westerns!

The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.

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

I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun, I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.

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.

So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.

I've done a little bit of everything now, but I would like to do a Western because I've never done that.

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

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

Years ago on TV, I played people like Doc Holliday and Jesse James on Westerns.

In most Westerns, you know, people are shooting off guns all the time until you don't even notice it anymore.

I read a lot of Louis L'amour Western books.

I suppose that the Western has always been a kind of mold to which you could pour the concerns of the day, but have them seen in the simple terms of the Western, of one alley or whatever.

We say it’s a modern American Western - two gunslingers who ride into town, fight the bad guys, kiss the girl and ride out into the sunset again. And we were always talking from the very beginning that if you’re going to have cowboys, they need a trusty horse. —Eric Kripke on the decision to add the Impala