I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.
People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.
I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.
I am not a fan of westerns particularly.
The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.
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 think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.
'West' is one of those scripts that, when it came out, everyone wanted a piece of it and everyone wanted to be involved in it.
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.
Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.