Sam Peckinpah Quotes

The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

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

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

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

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

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 knew that I was going to do Westerns. I like 'em.

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

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 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.

I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.

I do love Westerns. But, in a way, traditional Westerns, for me, have been hard to love viscerally and personally.

I tend to lean more towards the Westerns of the 40s and 50s as opposed to the 60s and 70s. They get a little too drab for me when you get into the Spaghetti Western era. I love the John Ford movies. I love the music. I love the scope.

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.

When in doubt, make a western.

Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue when you hit the right note.

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

Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.

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

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American culture. Maybe if I want to write a Western enough I should try to overcome that fear, but I'll certainly feel like I'm trespassing. I feel that that is so much a part of American foundation myth, it's part of the myth of America, the American vision of what America is, which people have glorified and then challenged and then vilified.