“The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it.” IfsGivingTryingBookCharacterStoriesMaterialsDramaConflictOvercomingHorseWesternGenreBootsRidingJumpingScreenplaysGenre Is Author:Clint Eastwood
“Theoretically the human is supposed to be the smart one so as you get acquainted with the horse, you explore what it's going to take for him to understand what you would like him do, with as little trouble as possible. You're trying to avoid conflict, not trying to create it.” TryingHumansLittlesTroubleConflictSmartHorseSupposed To Be Author:Buck Brannaman
“I've worked a lot of historical stuff back in Sweden and there's always conflict with horses. I get a bit paranoid when I'm on them, and they can sense that and they get a bit paranoid. It ends up in this bad spiral where I don't want to be on them, and they don't want me on their backs.” WantEndsStuffBitsConflictHorseHistoricalWant MeParanoidSpiralsSweden Author:George Blagden
“One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.” TryingWellsTwoDifferentMightMovingDesireForceConflictEqualHorseContradictoryOpposingMoving InDifferent Directions Book:Riches Within Your Reach: The Law of the Higher Potential Source: Riches Within Your Reach: The Law of the Higher Potential
“And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs: paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark.” IfsMenDeathFightingDarkWhiteSkyBattleBandConflictWeaponsGloryShadowCommitmentTasksHorseSacredFighterTallLightningGrimTailoredCavalryStepsons Book:The Sacred Band Source: The Sacred Band