Walter Hill Quotes

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

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.

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

I don`t much like looking back.

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.

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.

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

I always say the next one is my favorite.

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

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn`t too excited about all the effects work.

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

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.

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`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.

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

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`ve always wanted to do a boxing movie.

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.

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 never do, I don`t even go to the retrospectives.

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

I get a great high from writing.