Western Film Genre Quotes

What defines a Western? I've probably seen three my whole life.

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

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.

When I was putting the 'Best of Hollywood' book together, I sat down and added up just the list of Westerns I've done, and it came to well over 200.

I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

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

One hundred percent, I mean, many of the Sergio Leone movies were with Clint Eastwood, and that's what it is.

It seemed like whenever a Western was going to get made, it came my way.

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.

Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that.

I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there's ever been. He's quite an incredible actor.

Oh, I loved John Wayne. He was just so charming and easy to work with.

I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.

If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.

I love the Western genre. In fact, one of my dreams is to play a cowboy on screen, like Clint Eastwood. I don't think it's going to happen, but you can always hope.

The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

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

I loved spaghetti westerns but besides these pure entertainment movies, there was also something different.