Patrick deWitt Quotes

The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western.

From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.

I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.

I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

My western heritage runs deep.

When people think of the West, it's easy to envision wagon trains, Buffalo Bill, the glory days of the Gold Rush. Cowboy hats come to mind.

The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.

It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas.

Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.

All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.

'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

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

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.

Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.

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

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.

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

I love westerns. It's guys being guys. There's no room for frilly stuff.