Walter Hill Quotes

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

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

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

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

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

I get a great high from writing.

I don't much like looking back.

The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.

When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.

When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.

I liked Batman because he was more grounded. I never liked Superman much or Captain Marvel or Shazam.

I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition.

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