Andre Bazin Quotes

I don't understand why we give up genres, and the Western is a great genre. It's a part of the rich history of cinema and who we are as we've evolved as people, as a community.

I think that most of the best movies made in America in the 20th century were crime dramas, screwball comedies and westerns.

The first Westerns I saw as a child were those little 8-mm. home movies put out by Castle Films.

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 remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

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 there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.

Yeah, there's absolutely. I mean, remember when The Searchers came out, it was a relatively big hit for a Western, and I think it made 5 million bucks - I don't even think it made that.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.

I'm not sitting around saying, 'Man, I'd really love to direct a western.' That's just not something I'm probably going to do, mostly because I'm allergic to horses.

I actually don't like westerns much. I like good westerns, but it isn't my preferred genre. There are all kinds of westerns: acid westerns, '70s westerns, Nicholas Ray's neurotic westerns. The ones I tend to like are nutso westerns.

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 Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul.

I love old Hollywood. I love our early film culture.

I am obsessed with cinema and its history.

We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films.

Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.

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