“I don’t know what the opposite youngsters did, however I by no means moved, not as soon as, not even throughout intermission when the opposite youngsters went out for Coke and popcorn,” Costner mentioned about his first time watching Wayne’s four-hour movie How the West Was Received – which additionally starred different massive heavyweights together with Jimmy Stewart and Gregory Peck.
He continued: “When the curtain opened, and Spencer Tracy’s voice got here on setting the scene, it was like God speaking to me, just like the scales had fallen from my eyes. Coming throughout this lake that didn’t have a ripple in it, like glass, was Jimmy Stewart in a birch-bark canoe. He acquired out, and he confirmed no worry, and went about his enterprise at a buying and selling publish. I needed to be like him. I cherished Westerns then and I really like them now.”
“In case you assume my films are lengthy, you may blame it on that film,” Costner joked, as his most up-to-date western, Horizon: An American Saga, sits at three hours lengthy.