Kevin Costner Quotes

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas.

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.

The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American culture. Maybe if I want to write a Western enough I should try to overcome that fear, but I'll certainly feel like I'm trespassing. I feel that that is so much a part of American foundation myth, it's part of the myth of America, the American vision of what America is, which people have glorified and then challenged and then vilified.

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.

Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

We say it’s a modern American Western - two gunslingers who ride into town, fight the bad guys, kiss the girl and ride out into the sunset again. And we were always talking from the very beginning that if you’re going to have cowboys, they need a trusty horse. —Eric Kripke on the decision to add the Impala

From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.

If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.

I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.

All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.

I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

I wanted to be a cowboy in cowboy movies.

The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

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.

I've always loved a good Western.

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.