I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.
Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.
I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.
I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?
I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.
I initially studied literature [in France], and then I went to cinema school. I discovered the Cinematheque, and saw not only action movies and westerns, but also lots of serious movies.
All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.
Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.
The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.
Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know. . . It's just good entertainment.
I am not a fan of westerns particularly.
There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those VietnamWatergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies.
In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.
I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that if I did a Western, it would have a lot of the aesthetics of Spaghetti Westerns, because I really like them.
Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.
I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.
