Walter Hill Quotes

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

Conversations about films are always funny. I would say a majority of people want to talk about what were the more obvious successes; the big box office films. Other people wanting to be more sensitive to you want to talk about the ones that maybe didn't make a lot of money, but they think you might have a special feeling about. And then other people sometimes want to help you by suggesting that you should have done this or that in the movie, that that would have helped you a great deal in whatever capacity.

I get a great high from writing.

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

I always say the next one is my favorite.

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.

I'm doing my best. I read in the paper that I'm an action director. They always say that, "Action director Walter Hill", if they bother writing about me at all. I think that's fine. I'm happy to do the work.

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.

He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.