Revisionist Western Quotes

'Unforgiven,' I think, is the best Western ever.

'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one of my top three movies.

There were many, many other 'Django' films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one 'Django.'

Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre at all. We didn't talk about John Ford or Sergio Leone, even though we like their films. Really, we were driven only by our enthusiasm for Charles Portis's book.

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one I watched again and again and again in the early days of VHS.

Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.

To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.

I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.

Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.