Classic Westerns Quotes

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

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

I wrote 'The Searcher' because I love westerns, and they've fallen out of fashion.

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

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

I was always a fan of the great old spaghetti Westerns, the Sergio Leone films. But the one that always sticks with me, that I just thought was brilliant and perfect is "Cat Ballou." Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou."

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

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

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.

If one were to go back to the '50s, the most popular TV genre on the air in the United States were Westerns. You could go turn on ABC or CBS on any night and you'd almost have three full hours of everything from 'Bonanza' to 'Rawhide' to 'Wanted Dead or Alive.'

I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.

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.

I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood 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.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

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

There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'