Westerns Quotes

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

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.

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

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.

I am not a fan of westerns particularly.