63 Quotes by Walter Hill

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I’ve always wanted to do a boxing movie.