Lee Child Quotes

I suppose that the Western has always been a kind of mold to which you could pour the concerns of the day, but have them seen in the simple terms of the Western, of one alley or whatever.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

I love Westerns. They're a unique creation of American mythology.

Years ago on TV, I played people like Doc Holliday and Jesse James on Westerns.

I think Westerns are always so great for clearing out the clutter and the ambiguities, and getting right to the broad strokes of that kind of situation.

In most Westerns, you know, people are shooting off guns all the time until you don't even notice it anymore.

I read a lot of Louis L'amour Western books.

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

Shane was a classic, and you can't find a better bad guy than Jack Palance.

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.

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.

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

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.

I love Westerns!

The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.

I always wanted to do a Western.

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

I watched Westerns from the time I was a girl. My dad was a big Western fan. I always loved Clint Eastwood movies and 'Westworld', where the guy gets trapped in a western-themed amusement park. The western motif was fascinating to me.

I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time.

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 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.

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.

So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.