Michelle MacLaren Quotes

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

But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.

My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.

Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

There were many, many other 'Django' films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one 'Django.'

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.

'Once Upon a Time in the West' is one of my favorite films.

'Out of Sight' is one of my favorite films ever. Love Steven Soderbergh. 'Goodfellas' was a huge influence on me in terms of the use of camera. 'Black Orpheus,' a beautiful love story that very few people actually have seen, and that was an influence on 'Beyond the Lights,' too, in terms of the look of the film.

I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.

Honestly, all of 'Breaking Bad' was the best television experience of my entire life - the writing, the crew, the other actors.

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

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 some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I think when Dean Semler did 'Dances with Wolves,' for instance, that's a very different-looking Western than what you've seen much of before. It's very rich, color-wise. But we've got our own very proud thing going on.

'Once Upon a Time in the West' is a great movie.

Looking back at 'Taxi Driver' or, really, any of the Martin Scorsese films, he really filmed New York City in a way that I saw New York City.

The spaghetti Western genre is definitely one of favorites.

In all my films, I have tried a different look.

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

My discussion is one that has gone all the way from Fistful of Dollars through Once Upon a Time in America. But if you look closely at all these films, you find in them the same meanings, the same humor, the same point of view, and, also, the same pains.

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.

I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.

I had seen 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and I thought that was a different kind of film than I'd seen before, with that kind of editing and slick camera movements.

'Captain America: First Avenger' is very much a Joe Johnston film.