I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan. Walter Hill More Quotes by Walter Hill More Quotes From Walter Hill You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences. Walter Hill filmrememberlooks Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall. Walter Hill hbopilotsfall 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 leavingherothinking 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 hollywoodboxingthinking 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 offersexcitedaliens Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility. Walter Hill blackgivingmen 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 officeshould-havethinking I've always wanted to do a boxing movie. Walter Hill boxingwanted 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 wantwritingdirectors 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 herofearmen 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 writingdirectorsthinking I don't much like looking back. Walter Hill looking-back I tend not to look back. It's confusing. Walter Hill confusinglooks I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie. Walter Hill criticismmeanthinking 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 producersexcitingaction 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 talkingpeopleyears I liked Batman because he was more grounded. I never liked Superman much or Captain Marvel or Shazam. Walter Hill groundedcaptains 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 superherotoo-muchtea I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel. Walter Hill comicfansbook
