Walter Hill Quotes (30 Quotes)

But, I don't know, I really don't spend a lot of time, I think what you've got to do is you think about what you're going to do next.

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

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.

I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

I always say the next one is my favorite.

My Father was a great boxer, and I grew up watching the fights, live and on TV too.

So many movies are reviewed off their intentions, and noble intentions are fine, but I think that's an easy version.

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.

If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.

I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.

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.

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

I don't much like looking back.

Most Hollywood boxing movies are metaphors. Your movie is not a metaphor. It's really about boxing.

I get a great high from writing.

I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.

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

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.

As far as I'm concerned, all my movies could be westerns, so this is good stuff.

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.

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

What's not perceived to be an A movie anymore, is often subject matter that would have been thought of as a B movie many years ago.

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

Things are easier to find, things are clearer, sharper, cleaner and it's easy to contact members. It's a benefit to all members.

We're not going anywhere and it's time people know that we're here.

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.

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

I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.

It gets the word out there.

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