Michelle MacLaren Quotes

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

'Double Indemnity' is one of my all time favorites. That's my favorite.

One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.'

'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one of my top three movies.

Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.

I love 'Whale Rider.' That's one of my favorite films of all time.

Sunset Boulevard' is my favorite film.

You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.

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

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

My favorite movie ever is 'Bicycle Thieves.'

'Notorious' is a masterwork. I can watch it every day.

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.

But 'Sixteen Candles' is the only movie I could watch over and over and over without getting sick of it.

In general, we like to shoot Breaking Bad like a modern day Western, and Sergio Leone is one of my all-time favorite 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.

'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It's a cult movie in Italy.

Sergio Leone came to see me when I was doing 'Mission Impossible.' He wanted me to do 'A Fistful of Dollars.' I turned him down. I didn't want to get stuck as a stoic Western movie star.

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.

'Braveheart' is way up there for me.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit' is one of my favorite movies of all time, and in fact it is maybe the first movie that I really loved in an adult way.

The spaghetti Western genre is definitely one of favorites.

'A Prophet' is one of my favorite films of all time.

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.