Cowboys and Indians Quotes

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

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

I liked Westerns for two reasons: First, it took the actor outside. They were all very physical at that time and not limited to a stage. Second, they paid my rent an awful lot.

I'm always for the Indian in the cowboy movie. Always.

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

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 want 'Dawn' to play like a cowboys and Indians movie.

Stagecoach is really my first Western-Western, the whole horses and gunplay. It was really fun. We shot it fast, too. We got lucky with the weather. If it rained, I don't know if we would have been able to finish it. We had like 12 shooting days for the whole thing.

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.

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

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 12, I decided I was only going to watch Westerns for a few months.

I love westerns. It's guys being guys. There's no room for frilly stuff.

I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

I have turned down soaps operas. I want to be outside, and I want to have the gun. It is cowboys and Indians to me.

Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

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.

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

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

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