Walter Hill Professions : Film director Born : January 10, 1942 Browse All Authors Top 37 quotes by Walter Hill You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences. Walter Hill film remember looks Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall. Walter Hill hbo pilots fall I get a great high from writing. Walter Hill writing I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies. Walter Hill leaving hero thinking 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 hollywood boxing thinking 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 offers excited aliens Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility. Walter Hill black giving men 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. Walter Hill office should-have thinking I've always wanted to do a boxing movie. Walter Hill boxing wanted 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 want writing directors 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. Walter Hill hero fear men 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. Walter Hill writing directors thinking I don't much like looking back. Walter Hill looking-back I tend not to look back. It's confusing. Walter Hill confusing looks I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie. Walter Hill criticism mean thinking All producers encourage you, whatever it is, to make it more-so. If you've got a joke, can it be funnier? If you've got an action sequence, can it be more exciting? That's the nature of being a producer. Walter Hill producers exciting action I'm always happy to talk to somebody; it's flattering that people remember your movies. Especially some movie that you did, for Christ's sake, almost 35 years ago, or what's especially pleasant is if you're talking about some movie that you did 35 years ago and they're 20 years old. Walter Hill talking people years I liked Batman because he was more grounded. I never liked Superman much or Captain Marvel or Shazam. Walter Hill grounded captains I'm not even against superheroes. It's not my cup of tea. But there's just this endless stream of them and they are so repetitious and suspend certain rules in a way that I don't find dramatically helpful. The imperviousness can be too much. Walter Hill superhero too-much tea I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel. Walter Hill comic fans book Similar Authors Alex Graves film-director Brad Furman film-director Bryan Singer film-director Bruno Dumont film-director Bruce McDonald film-director Bruce Brown film-director All Authors
