Kevin Costner Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.

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

'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.

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.

There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees and a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze. He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees and he's dealing in a game that he can't win.

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

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.

I've always loved a good Western.

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

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 love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.

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

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.

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

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

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