Walter Hill Quotes & Trivia

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48 Hours was fun. Back then Eddie Murphy was very inexperienced, and Nick Nolte was.

As far as I'm concerned, all my movies could be westerns, so this is good stuff.

But, I don't know, I really don't spend a lot of time, I think what you've got to do is you think about what you're going to do next.

Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.

I always say the next one is my favorite.

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

I don't much like looking back.

I get a great high from writing.

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.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.

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

I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.

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.

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.

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.

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.

My Father was a great boxer, and I grew up watching the fights, live and on TV too.

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

So many movies are reviewed off their intentions, and noble intentions are fine, but I think that's an easy version.

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.

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.

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

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.

What's not perceived to be an A movie anymore, is often subject matter that would have been thought of as a B movie many years ago.

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.