Quotes About Western Films

#1. I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.

Steve Kanaly

#2. Western films don't do very well in India.

Baz Luhrmann

#3. Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

Beau Bridges

#4. When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.

Caroline Lawrence

#5. What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

Om Puri

#6. A lot of people in India are not that into non-Indian films or Western films.

Lillete Dubey

#7. The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.

A.R. Rahman

#8. I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story ... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western.

Gus Van Sant

#9. I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.

Robert Kirkman

#10. Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

Eric Rohmer

#11. We may have pets, but when it comes to unconditional love, they are the masters.

Donald L. Hicks

#12. I haven't purposefully set out to play heroes. I'm interested in playing the character who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. But he's really either just saving himself or acting in the service of something that's important to him.

Harrison Ford

#13. We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.

Plutarch

#14. I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.

Robert Jordan

#15. I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

Steve Kanaly

#16. I had a choice: I could believe the lies of the devil, in which case I was on my way to suicide, or I could believe in the promises of God, and be taken through my time of trial.

Angus Buchan

#17. Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#18. Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil.

Ron Fournier

#19. You could call it that [urban Western], I guess, you could certainly call it that. A lot of these types of films are, really, if you get down to the core most suspense thrillers in this genre, the Western is sort of the birth of it all.

Antoine Fuqua

#20. What women have achieved in the last 50 years, I wish men would have achieved in the last 100.

Oscar De La Renta

#21. When you follow your joy, the true essence of your life unfolds.

Milan Ljubincic

#22. I can't remember any of the films I've done. You go from one to another, and they all blend in to a big mass. You remember the costumes because you remember how you felt - that Western I did with Kevin Costner where I wore the big hat and the two guns, I remember that.

Michael Gambon

#23. So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

Milos Forman

#24. Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

Clint Eastwood

#25. It is strange the way the Western world reacts so positively and strongly to films make by foreigners or by Indian NRIs to celluloid representations of the underbelly of any Indian city.

Shoma A Chatterji

#26. I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

Seamus Heaney

#27. Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

#28. In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

Om Puri

#29. The best predictor of quality of life is sleep.

Samantha Ettus

#30. The increased rate of brain disease in the NFL population is caused by the way the game is played within the rules.

Steve Gleason