Katharine Whitehorn Quotes

My greatest fear: repetition.

I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.

There's so many great Western films. Let's see, 'Red River,' any of those Henry Fonda movies are fantastic. Any of those John Ford movies are fantastic. I love all the Eastwood 'Man With No Name' movies, John Wayne, 'True Grit.'

There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.

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.

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.

I'm not sitting around saying, 'Man, I'd really love to direct a western.' That's just not something I'm probably going to do, mostly because I'm allergic to horses.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

I wrote 'The Searcher' because I love westerns, and they've fallen out of fashion.

If you look at how people use the term 'western,' you can only conclude that it means a movie that has big hats and horses. And if you really want to sound like you've been thinking, then you'll use a term like 'genre.' But all the hell it seems to mean is big hats and horses. Which is not all that deeply analytical.

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

There are very few Westerns that have ever made really giant money.

I hate to do the same thing twice.

The spaghetti Western genre is definitely one of favorites.