Paul Dano Quotes

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

I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.

I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.

I love westerns. It's guys being guys. There's no room for frilly stuff.

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.

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

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

'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

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

Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.

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

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.

My western heritage runs deep.

You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.

I want 'Dawn' to play like a cowboys and Indians movie.

I loved Westerns for different reasons as an adult. It is not only our only native brand of storytelling - the only one that's not influenced by Europeans and not something that's done better by the French - but I also love the sensuality of the Western. The sights, sounds, and smell of a Western are very exciting.

The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.

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.

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas.