Westerns Quotes
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Western Quotes
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[In westerns] you don`t have to speak English to understand what`s going on. I`ve always said the talking pictures talk too much anyway.
Glenn Ford
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Don`t ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They`re art--the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions--love, hate, and anger--thrown in. We`ll have wester...
John Wayne
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Don`t ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They`re art--the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions--love, hate, and anger--thrown in. We`ll have wester...
John Wayne
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That Redford [Robert Redford] fellow is good. Brando [Marlon Brando]. Ah, Patton (1970) - George C. Scott. But the best of the bunch is Garner - James Garner. He can play anything. Comedy westerns, drama - you name it. Yeah, I have to say Garner is the be...
John Wayne
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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
Keywords: again :: and :: are :: been :: by :: done :: everyone :: evolved :: from :: good :: grammar :: great :: has :: have :: heroes :: humans :: in :: kind :: learned :: liked :: much :: of :: over :: people :: process :: see :: since :: the :: they :: this :: to :: want :: weak :: western :: westernsSource: imdb.com
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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
Keywords: again :: and :: are :: been :: by :: done :: everyone :: evolved :: from :: good :: grammar :: great :: has :: have :: heroes :: humans :: in :: kind :: learned :: liked :: much :: of :: over :: people :: process :: see :: since :: the :: they :: this :: to :: want :: weak :: western :: westernsSource: imdb.com
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My name is John Ford and I make Westerns.
John Ford
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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
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Star Wars is probably the most influential film of my generation. It`s the personification of good and evil and the way it opened up the world to space adventure, the way westerns had to our parents` generations, left an indelible imprint. So, in a way, e...
J.J. Abrams
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I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.
Mark Ruffalo
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I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.
Winona Ryder
Source: imdb.com
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Television has a tendency to reach a little. In their westerns, they are getting away from the simplicity and the fact that those men were fighting the elements and the rawness of nature and didn`t have time for this couch-work.
John Wayne
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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
John Wayne
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We question a country`s self-mythology. Perfect town and perfect family are - like Westerns - part of America`s mythology, involving notions of past innocence and naïveté. But is it possible for innocence to exist while something heinous transpires elsewh...
David Cronenberg
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I don`t particularly like westerns as a genre, but I do love certain westerns. High Noon (1952) means a lot to me - I love the purity and the honesty, I love Gary Cooper in that film, the idea of the last man standing. I do not like John Wayne: I find it ...
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I don`t particularly like westerns as a genre, but I do love certain westerns. High Noon (1952) means a lot to me - I love the purity and the honesty, I love Gary Cooper in that film, the idea of the last man standing. I do not like John Wayne: I find it ...
Daniel Day-Lewis
Keywords: 1952 :: and :: as :: but :: certain :: cooper :: do :: don :: film :: find :: gary :: genre :: hard :: high :: honesty :: idea :: in :: it :: john :: last :: like :: lot :: love :: man :: me :: means :: noon :: not :: of :: particularly :: purity :: standing :: that :: the :: to :: wa :: wayne :: westernsSource: imdb.com
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[In an interview with Hedda Hopper in 1957, about her attitude toward westerns] "Once you`re typed, you`re lost."
Joanne Dru
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I want to be able to make westerns like [Akira Kurosawa] makes westerns.
Sam Peckinpah
Source: imdb.com
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I want to be able to make westerns like [Akira Kurosawa] makes westerns.
Sam Peckinpah
Source: imdb.com
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I thoroughly enjoyed those years. 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.
DeForest Kelley
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They have been the mainstay of the industry ever since its beginning. And they have been good to me. Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star`s fan following.
Randolph Scott
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They have been the mainstay of the industry ever since its beginning. And they have been good to me. Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star`s fan following.
Randolph Scott
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With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it`s empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.
Lawrence Kasdan
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Spending two years on my uncle`s ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
Robert Duvall
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Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
Quentin Tarantino
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People are always asking me why they don`t make Westerns like they used to.
Roy Rogers
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Obviously, it`s one passion of mine. I mean, I don`t always want to do westerns, but it`s nice to always kind of have one in the works.
Tom Selleck
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Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.
Glenn Ford
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
Gary Cooper
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I`ve done two Westerns, and I feel that about Westerns. What a Western is, is a picture frame, and you can put any kind of picture you want in there.
Lawrence Kasdan
