Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.

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

I never really did a western western.

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

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

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.

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

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress.

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

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.

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

I want to do a Western so bad because I want to ride horses and act. Those are two of my favorite things in the world to do. I want to do that.

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

One of the things I would love to do is 'Axe Cop,' which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in 'Axe Cop' someday. I would also love to be in a Western.

I've made the film 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' which was an Eastern Western film. Obviously, the Western film is American and American only; there's really no Western genre over in Asia.

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

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

The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.

I'm a fan of the western genre. When I see a character actor, I see a whole movie behind a scene before and after. There's a whole other movie behind it.

Lionsgate and Lorenzo di Bonaventura saw my Korean Western-style film, 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' and probably felt that I would be right for 'The Last Stand,' which could be classified as a modern Western.

I've done a little bit of everything now, but I would like to do a Western because I've never done that.

'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one I watched again and again and again in the early days of VHS.