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Walter Hill
American
Director
About the author
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.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
#Talk
#Time
#Years
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.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
#Want
#Writer
#Movies
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.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
#Time
#People
#Living
#Business
I always say the next one is my favorite.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
#Favorite
I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
#Film
#Criticism
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.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
#Time
#Comfort
#Experience
I get a great high from writing.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
#Writing
I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
#Work
#Movies
Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
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.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
I don't much like looking back.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
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.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
#Years
You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
#Boxing
Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
#Boxing
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.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
#Hollywood
#Movies
#Metaphors
#Metaphor
#Boxing
Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
#Men
#Credibility
If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
Walter Hill,
American
Director
#Will
#Change