Red McCombs Quotes

Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.

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

The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.

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.

Jesse [James] was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious - however, he perpetuated this myth. Our film [The Assassination of Jesse James] really takes place at the end of all that, the last year of his life, at the end of all that celebrity.

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

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.

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 was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.

I would love to do a Western someday. Every time I watch any of them, I'm so envious.

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.

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 always wanted to do a Western.

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

I watched Westerns from the time I was a girl. My dad was a big Western fan. I always loved Clint Eastwood movies and 'Westworld', where the guy gets trapped in a western-themed amusement park. The western motif was fascinating to me.

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

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.

When I was five or six, I started dressing up like Davy Crockett.

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.