Mary Steenburgen Quotes

I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.

I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

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

When in doubt, make a western.

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

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

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

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

You don't get to make Westerns every day.

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

When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western.

I had never thought of making a western even as I was making it.

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

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.

The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.

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

Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that.

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

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

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

I am not a fan of westerns particularly.

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.

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

In 'Hokey Pokey,' bikes are kind of more than bikes alone. They become mustangs; they become creatures that rip up the dust as they gallop across the Great Plains.