Western Quotes

I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.

There are eleven or twelve or thirteen cities in China with populations of over 10 million people and most people in the West have never even heard of these cities.

Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...

'Game Of Thrones' was too big a canvas for a movie, but 'Dirty White Boys' is like a great old Western: there's so much compression, and it's so pressurized, it demands to be told in one sitting.

When in doubt, make a western.

Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film 'noir', as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

When I was about six, I was kind of a cowboy. I'd dress up in boots, straps, hat and bandanna, and my dad would take us to the rodeo.

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

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have pointed to something like Bill Wellman's The Ox Bow Incident, the best Western I ever saw and very much in the style of film noir I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross that defines what kind of drama it is.

If they [terrorists] see a Western hostage can be sold for a couple of million dollars, they may conclude that by holding on to an American, they'll get some money out of us.

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

In so many countries, Western journalists are viewed simply as dollar signs. We're ransom objects.

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

Years ago on TV, I played people like Doc Holliday and Jesse James on Westerns.

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

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.

No American witnessing the way that President George W. Bush and his generals have bungled the Iraq war can deny that our leaders, civilian and military alike, will have to get a lot smarter if the U.S. armed services are to persuade the Islamic world to embrace the blessings of democracy.

'Once Upon a Time in the West' is a great movie.

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.