Seth MacFarlane Quotes

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 want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.

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

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.

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

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.

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

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.

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.

I love the Western genre. In fact, one of my dreams is to play a cowboy on screen, like Clint Eastwood. I don't think it's going to happen, but you can always hope.

I love Westerns!

I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.

Yeah, there's absolutely. I mean, remember when The Searchers came out, it was a relatively big hit for a Western, and I think it made 5 million bucks - I don't even think it made that.

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

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

If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.

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

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.

The first Westerns I saw as a child were those little 8-mm. home movies put out by Castle Films.

There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'

I was a fan of westerns growing up. Every boy wanted to ride a horse and be a cowboy.

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

From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.