Kevin Macdonald 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.

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

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.

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

I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time.

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

In a Western, you don't over-explain.

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

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

I know I am always pumped, as an audience member, to go and see a Western.

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

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

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.

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

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.

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

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'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.