[about the movie Monte Walsh]: "I just really want people to see this movie and I hope they like it, because to me Monte Walsh probably reflects my sensibilities more than any other I`ve done in the Western genre. I`m really proud of it and I think it may...
Tom Selleck
I made up my mind that I was going to play a real man to the best of my ability. I felt many of the western stars of the twenties and thirties were too goddamn perfect. They never drank or smoked. They never wanted to go to bed with a beautiful girl. They...
John Wayne
I was tired of playing the nice, clean-cut cowboy in "Rawhide" (1959), I wanted something earthier. Something different from the old-fashioned Western. You know: Hero rides in, very stalwart, with white hat, man`s beating a horse, hero jumps off, punches ...
Clint Eastwood
Good Westerns are liked by everyone. Since humans are weak, they want to see good people and great heroes. Westerns have been done over and over again, and in the process a kind of grammar has evolved. I have learned much from this grammar of the Western.
Akira Kurosawa
First I played ingénues and western heroines; then I played western heroines and ingénues. That diet of roles became as monotonous as a diet of spinach. The studio wouldn`t trust me with any other kind of role, because I had no experience in any other kin...
Jean Arthur
First I played ingénues and western heroines; then I played western heroines and ingénues. That diet of roles became as monotonous as a diet of spinach. The studio wouldn`t trust me with any other kind of role, because I had no experience in any other kin...
Jean Arthur
My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). It`s just not December without that movie in my house.
Tom Hanks
And when I look around America today I feel we`re oversaturated with goods. Like most of western Christian civilization, we feel it`s fine if we`re comfortable and, if the rest of the world isn`t, then that`s their problem. We`re not generous. And the ide...
Robert Altman
My mom and I lived at Hollywood and Western, a drug-dealer and prostitute corner. It was pretty terrifying. I got beat up a lot. I saw people have sex in the alleys. I remember I was 5 years old, and this guy with a trench coat, needles and crack cornered...
Leonardo DiCaprio
[after having received "permission" from Samuel Goldwyn to get married] About a week before the wedding was planned I got a call from the casting director: "Let your hair and your beard grow. You`re going to be in a western". So in the society column of t...
Dana Andrews
Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don`t know... It`s just good entertainment. (in interview with American Western Magazine, January 2001 issue)
Tom Selleck
For thousands of years, there`s been a tradition of teaching us in China to think in terms of the collective experience, so we are rarely able to act in accordance with personal desires or emotions. Now young people, especially under Western influences, h...
Yimou Zhang
California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming. We won`t wait for the federal government. We will move forward because we know it`s the right thing to do. We will lead on this issue and we will get other wester...
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I feel very close to the western. There are not too many American art forms that are original. Most are derived from European art forms. Other than the western and jazz or blues, that`s all that`s really original.
Clint Eastwood
I feel very close to the western. There are not too many American art forms that are original. Most are derived from European art forms. Other than the western and jazz or blues, that`s all that`s really original.
Clint Eastwood
For Western women, it`s much easier to be yourself. If you want to do something, you just go and do it. In an Asian context, women are still much more modest and conservative. I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women t...
Zhang Ziyi
The one thing I`ve always maintained is that I`m an American Indian. I`m not politically correct. Everyone who`s born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.
Russell Means
To Western audiences, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, for example, is seen as something very refreshing - to see man-powered flight. But now there are more and more of these kinds of films, American movies have also begun to adopt these kinds of scenes wit...
Yimou Zhang
The West - the very words go straight to that place of the heart where Americans feel the spirit of pride in their western heritage - the triumph of personal courage over any obstacle, whether nature or man.
John Wayne
Crikey, mate. You`re far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.
Steve Irwin
I was in Africa when I got the call for Unforgiven (1992). Clint called my agency and made an offer for a western. I was like, `He called for me?` It was jaw-dropping.
Morgan Freeman
One of my film heroes is Peter Weir, who made Fearless (1993) but also made Green Card (1990). Ang Lee makes a western, he makes a Seventies psycho movie, a costume drama and a monster movie. I wanted to be like that. I finished this in October and I have...
Paul Bettany
We`re yet to make inroads into the West and the way Chinese cinema is made. I mean, long before Ang Lee`s `Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon`, Bruce Lee had made an impact on the Western audience with his `Enter The Dragon`. Indian cinema is yet to make that ...
Irfan Khan
When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse
George Carlin
