David Milch Quotes

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

Westerns give people a chance to see wide-open spaces and life before technology took over.

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.

My western heritage runs deep.

The Westerns have probably affected me more than any one thing, Western-related material. I love Westerns.

I used to love American Westerns, growing up in Germany.

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

I've always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, and they mainly took place in the West that was changing.

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

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.

'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.

I loved Westerns for different reasons as an adult. It is not only our only native brand of storytelling - the only one that's not influenced by Europeans and not something that's done better by the French - but I also love the sensuality of the Western. The sights, sounds, and smell of a Western are very exciting.

El Paso is the final Wild, Wild West city.

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

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

What Westerns did was to take a world and mythologise it.

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.

When I was a young kid, almost every other show on television was a Western. And some of them were part of my childhood, I loved them. Like, Rifle Man, I absolutely adored. So, I think everything comes in a cycle.

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'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

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

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

The West is the most American part of America....

Anyone who's done their homework knows that the West was a pretty rough-and-tumble place. People from all over the world were there - and when you were there, you had to be tough as nails.