Walter Hill Professions : Film director Born : January 10, 1942 Browse All Authors Top 37 quotes by Walter Hill Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations. Walter Hill situation action drama 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. Walter Hill men people years It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic books were. I always liked how they were half way between literature and the cinema. I liked the visuals and I liked the simplicity of a certain type of moral dilemma. Walter Hill simplicity kids book The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers. Walter Hill graphic-novels interest form 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. Walter Hill shorthand mundane reality 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. Walter Hill cinema kind thinking There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You have to ice skate rather carefully between the humor and the action tension part of the drama. Walter Hill ice revenge drama 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 you business time people 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 story know you situation I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives. Walter Hill even never go 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 doing know you time 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 true wait good you I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan. Walter Hill say think always boxing I always say the next one is my favorite. Walter Hill favorite say always next 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 better experience time long If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version. Walter Hill will back go change Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it. Walter Hill down see me australia 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