Quotes About Spaghetti Westerns

#1. As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!

Kara Walker

#2. I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that if I did a Western, it would have a lot of the aesthetics of Spaghetti Westerns, because I really like them.

Quentin Tarantino

#3. I am inspired by both Japanese Samurai films, in particular the films of Kurosawa, and how they share the spirit of American Westerns, with the influences running in both directions, and including the 'Spaghetti Westerns' and films of Sam Peckinpah.

Ann Nocenti

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

Quentin Tarantino

#5. I was always a fan of the great old spaghetti Westerns, the Sergio Leone films. But the one that always sticks with me, that I just thought was brilliant and perfect is "Cat Ballou." Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou."

Johnny Depp

#6. Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

Tab Hunter

#7. Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

Quentin Tarantino

#8. We talked to Sergei Bodrov who did "Mongel" who I thought was incredible. There was a lot of people who've done a lot of things that I really appreciate and then you go back to the Italian spaghetti westerns that our spaghetti westerns were based off of so I've seen everything.

Josh Brolin

#9. The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

Emma Thompson

#10. If you can write it, I can be it.

Karen Black

#11. Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure

Napoleon Hill

#12. You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.

Jack Dempsey

#13. 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.

Seth MacFarlane

#14. Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

Jeff Smith

#15. I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

Eliot Spitzer

#16. Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.

Friedrich Engels

#17. Minimum wage increases. The Nobel Prize economist Milton Friedman has observed that the minimum wage is "one of the most ... anti-black laws on the statute books" because it destroys entry level jobs for second paycheck earners, teens, and other unskilled workers.

David Horowitz

#18. Do unto others what has been done to you,

Maynard James Keenan

#19. Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

Ryan Reynolds

#20. She had lived among those oak and pine trees when their roots grew deep beneath her and their leaves thick above. Now he lived among them, too, only he lived among them cut and dead.

Louise Erdrich

#21. I love Australia. I love the people there; they are fantastic. The business opportunities are endless.

Anthony Pratt

#22. Our most merciless enemy is our past.

Maxim Gorky

#23. Until he turned twelve, Nimrod was a shitty person. The kind of whiner that, if he wasn't your best friend, you'd have kicked his ass a long time ago. And then one day, just before his bar mitzvah, they put insoles in his shoes, and suddenly the guy was a whole new human being.

Etgar Keret

#24. Hunger is the mother of anarchy.

Herbert Hoover