Josh Radnor Quotes

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

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.

I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.

I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

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

I wrote 'The Searcher' because I love westerns, and they've fallen out of fashion.

I like to make movies on the west side of the Mississippi River, and a lot of times, the movies I direct have horses and big hats in them and get called westerns, but that's okay. I used to resent that, but I don't anymore.

Cowboy movies aren't supposed to be in vogue. I still like them. You know, I'm still out there pitching the hell out of them.

Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue when you hit the right note.

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

It's hard not to think of Jack Ford when you're making a Western. Hard not to think of him when you're making any picture.

One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really well, and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.

The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made one Western, which was 'Three Amigos,' but I would love to make a serious Western. I'm just wide open.

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

I wanted to be a cowboy in cowboy movies.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.

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

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.

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.